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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29
REMARKS

Mrs. GoOdsole-What satisfaction does
Mrs. types derive from her new autumo-
bile? | never see her riding i'm II.
Miss C~apsiCum-She isn't deriving any
satisfaction from it now. The SnOodleS
have a finer One.-Chicago Tribune.
We'll, there's one thing to be said for
public servants"
What's that?'
''When you hire one, you never have any
trouble keeping him. Cleveland Leader.
"Mirandy, l want TO ask you to marry
me and TO tell me-
"Oh, George, this is so sudden
To tell me what date you and your mother
have decided on for our wedding Brook
Ign Life.
Husband-(After the theater,) Well, how
do YOU like the piece?
Wife-VerV much. There's only one inn
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

WI Ting-fang will leave us in No
vember to be succeeded by hung Men
Few. Sympathy will go to Mr.. Few
If he has any ambition to equal Mr.. WI
as a spotlight diplomat.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Washington Herald.
Oh, kerosene, Kerosene! How many
crimes are committed in thy name-on the
quiet?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Cuban rOadmakers have struck be-
cause they were paid in native silver
instead of American money. Even
Cuba will o stand for Organism.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29
For Men of Letters.

IllISOuIS DlSpdlCu.
For the next few years political lights
having business with John u. Archbold
will pay strict attention to that spothegm
from an expert; Don't write; go and at
tend to the matter YOURSELF"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

"If / I'M elected, the republicans can
tell Immediately what to expect, says
Bryan, In hat cSse the republicans
may as well be prepared for the worst.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

MIR. Bryan says he did not know he
was running against Roosevelt, He
found out, however. when he ran up
against Roosevelt.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

THE Devil is 10 make a tour of
the west. There is a man down in
Oklahoma who has been playing the
democratic version of it,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Tom Taggart is maintaining a dis
Greet silence. He is doubtless going
through his desk to see if he burned
all those letters.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

The wise politician will burn up any
letters he has from the Standard Oil
company enclosing checks for $4,000
or more.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscriber leaving the city ten"
poraRiIy should have The nee
mailed TO HEM. Address VIII DC
changed as often as requested
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Governor Haskell is referred to as
"a bold partisan" Yes, he even APP
pears to have been an Archbold parti-
san.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Mr.. Bryan is demonstrating the diff
ference between being an heir apparent
and an air apparent.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Both parties apparently agree that
the Standard Oil company is one of the
wickedest Of trusts.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

In addition to being very active in
politics, Mr.. Hearst is also establishing
a reputation as being a man of letters.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Mr. Bryan is recovering from his
prediction enthusiasm for a man
named Roosevelt.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

King Ak-Sar-Ben is entitled to the
center of the stage.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Notice the liquid notes in Septem-
ber's swan song?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

In certain sections of the country
they refer to him as "W. r. Hoist"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

A little less than three months left
in which to do your Christmas
shopping.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

STATEMENT OF cIEcuIL o,5ty' IS:
state Of Nebraska. DoutIs .nrcr OF The
pSn B~ubiishing company, being ~
sworn, ysys that the sc'u IA the Daily,
on snu Evsnins and Sunday Bee printeo
S1p,na The month of August lsoS' W"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

The republicans are on the rum
shouts Colonel Watterson. Yes, with
the democrats a poor second in the
race.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Wonder IL Ak-Sar-Ben has done any
thing calculated to milf the weather
man?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

There are red letter days in the cam
paign and also some redho letter
days.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

There is no "enemy's country" for
Mr.. Taft
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

While the World-Herald is vocifer-
ating for the political retirement Of
everybody who has anything to do with
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

New York City is the great emporium
Of the American continent for Junk" And
THIS junk includes a vast variety of once
valuable things, such as marble and granite
palaces, iron and brick, sin. eight and even
ten story buildings. locomotives. ferryboats,
street cars, granite paving blocks, steel
rails, bottles, scrap metal, firearms and
second hand clothing.
New York street cars, like the horses
that are worn out on its hard streets. do
not last long. much as the appearance of
the rolling stock on some of the lines indi-
cate that 1t is not soon abandoned. Every
year, in fact, every spring and fall, there
is a wedding out OF old street cars. which
are sold to companies in smaller towns at
exceedingly low prices.
There is much Of the old machinery Of
city life that is going to ruin-in every rail
way yard about the city are rusting loco
motives and dccaying cars having their
last rest, but this complete waste of out
worn or outlived things i'm the great city
grows every year less noticeable. for many
have discovered the trick Of making for.
tunes out of junk of every conceivable
variety, not emitting the daily collection of
the city's garbage.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

net tolaI $3.50
GEORGE b. TZsCHUCk,
Treasurer.
subsoribed in my presence ano sworn 20
Sass ns This 1st day of September. l9OS.
IsnS ROBERT HUNTER,
NeS"A' Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

.There are about 1900 professional beg
gars in New York City. and no persons are
shrewder observers of human nature. They
have learned by close attention and eXperi-
cnce what brings the best results to them.
and the scientific study that they make
OF their calling has enabled them to formu-
late "A working conclusion on which they
act in their intercourse with men and
women and which has proved 10 be ex-
trcmely useful with the least possible
expenditure OF time and labor. They know
what to expect under all possible condi-
tions and combinations and make their cal
culations accordingly.
Results of these observations. to some ex-
tent, have been gathered from conversa-
lions with representative members Of the
profession when they nave been found in
d mood for conversation.
In the first place, they receive more
funds, in tho aggregate, from women than
from men. individual gifts from the
women are smaller, but there are far more
of them than from the men.
Results of the recorGs kept by many Of
the beggars show that only one man out
of 800 gives anything to the street mendi-
cant, but this small lumber makes a large
aggregate in a busy t~horoughfare i'm the
course of a day. If there are two men
together one gift comes from each 40, be-
cause a man likes to appear liberal to his
fellows. II there are three men together
there will be 4 gift from each 2O6. But
when you get up to four, It is one Gift
from each 1872, for four apparently so inter-
est one another that the beggar does not
get the consideration that comes from three
or two in IA group. These figures held al
most the same with women, excepting that
when two women are together a gift from
the other, and three or more together, as a
rule, overlook the beggar entirely.
Restaurant districts are tIvorite stamping
grounds for the metropolitan beggar, and
his chances are u per cent loss for getting
anything from the man going to a rcstau-
rant than they are getting from the man
who has just dined well. Such is the Ell
feet of a good meal.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

congress OF physicians produces a real
advance in present methods for its
repression and cure.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Nathan Strsus has reached the close Of
Is years work in saving the lives Of
babies in New York City by his dispensing
Of p~asteurized milk. He has II depots
where milk is sold at five cents a quart,
less than cost. lie has distributed 4,165, e
SO quarts in nursing bottles. as against
S,O3l,Sl0 the preceding year. and l,4ll,0l7
glasses, as compared with 1880. 1870 in the
summer of 1907, besides 23.9CS bottles Of
barley water. Thus nearly ESQ infants
have been fed daily on milk without disease
germs, and 1880 glasses of milk have been
served daily in the parks and on recre-
alton piers, chiefly to children. THIS work
of Mr.. Straus is regarded as al important
item in the prevention of tuberculosis and
Of other diseases.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

been dismissed for drunkenness. Gum
could not be fired until he was loaded.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Rippies ON the Current OF Life In the
Metropolis.

Charitable people individually and
through organization strive nobly to pre-
vent disaster among the poor OF the great
city. No matter how well and earnestly
they strive some ungracious beneficiary
knocks the system after stretching his hide
to the cracking point without cost. The
prince Of this class OF knockers is known as
the king of Hoboes.' who has been a
royal guest at the City's lodginG house for
some time. In bidding an involuntary
adicu TO his host he made a powerful sp-
peal for reform and touched the sympa-
thies of the oppressed. lie said he was
forced to rise at 6 q. m. to secure bread
and coffee and was subjected to the an
noyance of a bath and sleeping in a bed.
These discomforts are clearly %repugnant TO
the prevailing moral uplitt, and New York
cannot afford to endanger its reputation
as a progressive Town by continuing back
number c~ivilitics to royalty on the wing.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

N~eighbors noticed that once a week the
woman in the third floor flat went away in
a cab. Curiosity finally prompted inquiry
into the reason of these regularly recur-
ring rides. The cabman being pressed for
information, finally revealed the secret.
which was no great secret after all.
Il drive her to the bank" he said. She
got run over once when going to deposit
money and lost sl97. Since then she has
been afraid to trust to streec cars and calls
a cab when bound for the bank. She is
not the only person who takes that pre-
caution. ! have n dozen customers who
always ride in a cab when going to the
nank with money, but never at any other
time"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

Entered at Omaha pos,otfice as second
lass matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29

VICTOR RosEwArER. EDITOR.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29
THE OMAHA DAILY BEL

.ouNDED BY EDWARD RosEwArEr
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
WAYS TO ARRANGE FLOWERS.
Good Idea Is to Follow Nature al
Closely as Possible.

It is well to remember that all
flowers look better for loosening up a
trifle and few look well packed tightly
| together. One of the safe rules to fol-
low is to heed the natural growth of
the flower whenever possible. Flowers
that grow in thick clusters are GER
tain to look we'll in masses, while
those that grow singly and far apart
should not be crowded. The object
should always be to bring out the
whole beauty of the flowers and to let
everything else be secondary to that.
Chrysanthemums and sweet peas
are examples of the few flowers that
do not need foliage as a relief Nearly
all others look far better amid green
leaves. A trailing green vine is often
just the touch that is needed to soften
a stiff arrangement. Asparagus fern
is an airy, feathery green, suitable
only for fragile and delicate flowers in
loose arrangement. Wood sorrel has
delicate leaves that look we'll with
sweet peas and other small flowers,
but as a rule flowers own foliage
suits it best.
The vases used play an important
part in the success of flower arrange
meat. Colorless, transparent vases
are always safe and sometimes abso-
lutely necessary. Bowls are beautiful
for short-stemmed flowers, and the
cheaper variety are sometimes the
best. An ordinary glass fish globe dis
plays the full beauty of the stems to
far greater advantage than cut-glass
rose bowl. The colorless glass olive
bottle, going straight up and down, is
more to be desired than opaque
vases, which hide decorative stems
Tall, slender vases are suitable for
long-stemmed flowers. 1t is said that
the height of long-stemmed flowers
should be IL times the height Of the
vase.
Yellow flowers in dark blue jar
are effective, and brilliant red flowers
look well in the neutral gray jars of
some of the Japanese ware. The pur-
pie violet finds it's richness intensified
in a pale yellow jar. Pansies and
violets both look their best in a heavy
jar, preferably of cylindrical shape.
It is well not to mix flowers of diff
ferent kinds and different colors. A
cluster of blossoms all presenting the
same hue is usually the most eff
fective arrangement. Some flowers,
such as a chrysanthemum or rose,
when long-stemmed and handsome,
are set off to advantage when a sin
gle flower alone occupies the. vase.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26

two sides Of the river seems difficult
to men not to the manor born, yet the
conditions are accepted as natural and
regular by natives.
Between Alexandria and the Mary-
land shore the Potomac is mile wide.
The Maryland lands are thickly set.
tied. Because of circuitous roads the
dwellers there must drive ten miles
to Washington, whereas in a straight
Inns the distance Is but five. That
country has yet to be traversed by a
trolley line. Many of the people on
the east side Of the river cross to
Alexandria and take steamboat or troll
ley to Washington. The means of COM
mun1cation between Alexandria, city
Of $4,000 inhabitants, and the opposite
shore, is "foot-ferry"-or more &C.
curately hand ferry-for the ferry is
a small boat rowed by a veteran river
man. The boat is rugged with sail
and when the wind favors, which is
not often, the ferryman rests on his
oars. A trip is made every hour
When the accompanying picture was
taken the sail was in use.
The ferryman is w. H. Wheatley.
He has spent his life on the river and
has been conducting the ferry for
many years. He plies from slip be-
tween two Of the principal wharves
in Alexandria and a decaying quay
called "Fox's Ferry" on the other side.
Fox's Ferry was a hustling place be.
fore the age of steam, a man named
Fox operating an endless chain ferry
across the river at that point.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
NEW TOUCHES FOR elRpLEs.
Small Details That Will Be Found to
Prove Charming Additions.

Nearly every modiste has ideas of
her own with reference to girdles and
belts, which she develops as occasion
offers, and while there is no very great
latitude possible with the ordinary
frock, still many small details may be
used that give original touches to
the costume and prove charming ad-
ditions.
FOR example, one clever foreign
modiste takes two or three rings COW
cred with heavy silk, buttonhoIed
around the edges, and through these
the ribbons or folds of the material
are drawn in various combinations.
Another girdle of ribbon by the
same modiste has for lowered mus
lin or silk frocks cluster of blossoms
matching some of those in the dress
drawn loosely through knot in the
girdle. In this case the knot should
be at the center front or to one side
of it.
A young girl, for whom this dress
maker made an organdie lawn party
frock in white with blackberry bios
SONS and leaves in lavender and pink,
had cluster of white berry blossoms
and cluster of unripe berries pulled
through the white silk sash drawn
high at the left side, and her large
white leghorn hat was trimmed with
trails of berry vines showing the
white flowers and also now and then
unripe ~green berries and an occa.
sional purple one.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
RAILWAYS IN CLOUDS
TWO ROADS BUILT BY AMERL
CANS IN THE ANDES.
Trains Now Running From Lake Tit
eaca to oruro, $4,000 Feet Up
12,ooo-Feet Climb from Guaya-
quill to Quito Also Finished.

New York.-They are celebrating
The completion of two important rail-
way projects in South America, In
BOLIVIA there is the line across the
plateau from Lake Titicaca to Oruro.
II was only two years ago that Presi-
dent Monies and other officials imam.
gurated the building of the road.
The railway is pretty high up, being
one OF the highest long stretches in
the world, for it runs across the
plateau at an elevation of from 10000
70 15,OOO feet. 1t starts in at 1880
feet at Viachal, 40 miles from Lake
Iltlcaca- so that there Is not much
climbing, but it is laid out on the rim
OF the South American world.
After time it will drop down be-
low the rim and get into some of the
valleys. It also will climb a couple
OF thousand feet higher from Oruro
TO the Potosi silver mines. The Sec
tlon which has just been completed
is $50 miles long, and when the sys-
tenn is finished there will be 1000
miles of it.
The gauge Of the line, which will be
that Of the entire system, is one me-
ter, or feet 33s inches. Sixty-pound
steel rails from American mills have
been used and the equipment is of the
American standard. The engines are
heavy and suitable for steep grades,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
TaiIor-Made Accessories.

Much Of the smart effect of any
tailor-made suit depends upon its &C.
cessories. Needless to say, anything
savoring of the directoire should not be
accompanied by linen collar and a
stiff little tie. These belong to what
is known as the English type of street
suit, meaning the severely tailored
box or semi-ftting coat and gored or
plated skirt, minus trimming. With
the French model there should be a
high lace collar or chiffon stock
giving the desired soft effect about the
china the frilly lacey front, in adj
dition of the wrist ruffies, which
should be of finest hand-weaye or
hand embroidery. Immediately white.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26

The walking
zephyr white
stitched nearly half
bodice is simple;
oveseeVe is edged with we'll 1t
muslin Hat OF straw trimmed IN aigrette.
Materials required Nine 80
For handsome visiting dress fine face cloth
CHOSEN The skirt is
@ p are stitched about hreequares of the
edge with
p a front The bodice has yoke of hneucked below
spotted which
edged with silk is taken round the amhoe
ehect in
edge the mhoes the sleeves with
flowers - N '-NA Ola anu
Materials
four ~ wv '"-N0 'DAHon
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26

This is a particularly appropriate
and pretty hat for young girl. It Is
white chip simply trimmed with soft
white ribbon and baby pink roses
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26

ship, the Macedonian. His career has
been notable one, including service
in two wars, directing the destruction
OF Cuban cables, the organization Of
the coast signal service, the direction
for time of the Naval War college
and command of the Pacific squadron
when it afforded signal assistance to
the sufferers in the San Francisco
earthquake. Admiral Goodrich was
born in Philadelphia in 1S47 and grad.
uated from the Naval Academy in
1864.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26

and several of them are of the power
full Mogul type.
Passenger cars of American make
both for first and second-class passen
gers, are to be employed. The freight
cars are OF 80 tons, with an excess
capacity of ten per cent. This intro
duction of high-class American ma.
terial is exceptional in South Ameri.
can railroad enterprises.
The cost of the Viacha-Oruro sec.
ton, including grading, masonry,
bridge work, rails and rolling stock,
terminal facilities and engineering and
office expenses, has been about 81, 0O0,.
600, or $4,000 a mile. 1t is not ex-
pected that the remaining sections,
which will have the more difficult
mountain regions to cross, can be con-
structed so cheaply. The capital has
been furnished jointly by the Bolivian
government and New York syndi-
cate.
The Guayaquil & Quito railway, re.
Gently completed in Ecuador, is of mar
row gauge, and from Duran to Quito
the distance is 200 miles. The esti-
mate of the total cost, including pre-
liminary surveys, financial negotia-
lions and engineering and office ex-
penses, as well as grading, masonry
and bridge work and rolling stock, is
$14, 100000, or about $4,000 a mile.
The original estimate was $4,000 a
mile, but as is usual with mountain
railway building, the cost kept pill
ing up.
The road makes some pretty steep
climbs and gets across the flank of
Chimborazo at an altitude above 12,-
600 feet. IN the clear season, on leav-
ing Riobamba in the morning, there
is usually i fine sight of the SHOWS of
Chimborazo Later if Cotopaxi is in
eruption, which is usually the case,
there is the opportunity to witness the
enormous pillar of black smoke pour
ing from it, and sometimes at night
the live volcanoes glow like a furnace.
The Devils Nose Or Pistichi noun
tain and the Alausi loop are the great
engineering features of the Guayacuil
& Quito road. The grade on Pistichi
is overcome by means of switchbacks.
This scratching the Devils Nose"
was one of the engineering feats de-
clared by Office experts to be impossi-
BILE.
The two notable engineering fea.
lures are the result of the ledgelike
drop Of the Alausi river. The canon
formed by this river winds around the
foot of the Pistichi, but does not af-
ford means of surrounding it. So.
an ascent of 10 feet was secured by
a switchback. A further ascent of 29O
feet was secured by the loop.
In the boldness of its curves and in
the mountain panorama which it pre-
sents this loop is unsurpassed. An
other engineering feature is a tunnel
through 1853 feet of solid rock. From
the foothills of the Cordilleras at Blu
cay to the summit at Palmira pass
there are 72 bridges, in the CONSTRUCT
tion of which more than 5000, 900
pounds of steel has been employed,
The Alausi river is crossed 26 times.
Most of the money to build the road
has come from the British and French
investors who took the bonds guaran.
teed by the Ecuadorian government.
A French finance company has also
made some advances. American f1nan-s
ciers have not put In large sums, but
the railway is actually an American
enterprise, and most Of the rails,
bridges and the rolling stock have
come from the United States.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
For the Drinkers.

Did you know that there is a cor
rect and incorrect way to hold the
saucer in which your teacup rests?
The correctness consists in whether or
not it is held gracefully. Watch the
women at an afternoon tea and you
will see that not all, indeed few, han
.dle the cup and saucer in the most en-
gaging way. Here is the secret: In
stead of holding the saucer with the
four fingers placed beneath it and the
thumb above the rim-as nearly every
woman does-form a half circle with
the thumb and first finger, clasping
the saucer in it, and giving slight
support with the third and fourth fin
gers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
Man. and Society

To understand man we must look
beyond the individual man and his
actions or interests, and view him in
combination with his fellows. 1t is in
society that man first feels what he
is; first becomes what he can be. In
society an altogether new set of spir-
itual activities are evolved in him and
the old UNNECESSARILY quickened and
strengthened. Society is the genial
element wherein his nature first lives
and grows; the solitary man were but,
a small portion Of himself, and must
continue forever folded in, stunted.
and only half alive Carlyle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26
To Keen Hair Curly.

As all straight haired people who
curl their hair know, it is much hard
err to keep the hair in curl in summer
than it is in winter, and the reason
for this is that there is so much more
moisture in the air, and then every
Dne is out doors more in the summer
time. A solution which can be used
TO moisten the hair before putting it
up in curriers' is made as follows: Take
one ounce of gum arabic and half an