Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA THE OmatA DAILY BEE ROSBEWATER, Editor. VERY MORNING. PUBLISHED ! RIPTION L tayy, One Year $8. Daily ¥ L ne Year ® 00 Tlustrated Fee 2 Bunday Bes - 2 Baturday Hee, On i Weekly Bee, Or 4 W OFFICH Bee Bullding ity Hall Building, Omaha: The South Omahn Twen ifth and | vl Street. Hullding 3 ork: Te “ourt Washington Sloux Clty ‘h Street. PONDE Communications relatin news editorial matter should be addres: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS and remittances should ublishing Com- and Rusines be addre pany, Omah; Remit by payable to Only 2-cent mail accou Omaha or 21 draft, express or postal order The Bee Publishing Company stamps accepted in payment of s, Personal checks, except o astern exchanges, not accepted PUBLISHING COMPANY. IMENT OF CIRCULATIC ebraska, Douglas County, s Tzschick, secretary of The Bee company, being _duly sworn the wetual numb 1 of The Dally, see, printed during wiis a8 follows: 17 27,070 1 .47, " 27,780 27,540 27,060 27,105 27,870 27,700 27,650 .27,570 27,500 27,4650 27, ....27,310 ..27,500 George 1 Publishing says that fos 27 480 26,700 850,055 12,278 Tolal grov Less unsold and returned coples Net total s Net daily 847,777 aver ¢ 27,025 20, B. 1 0o b B Subscribed HUNGAT Notary Pul leaving t nmer 1o them notifying The regulnrly Bee by Business 0 grass has been growing under the of General Chaffee since he arrived in the Orfent. The twentieth century Is not starting off in a very encouraging to the head that wears the erown. —_— The pistol used by the assassin of King Humbert is described as a superlor weapon. 1t also bears the fm print of American manufactu Another imaginative correspondent is abroad in the state trying to find evi dence that prosperlty is a sham and a fraud. Interviews with nameless farm- ers promise to be his stock in trade, manne Colonel Bryan is not giving out his precise Itinerary to Indianapolis. He wants to invest it with as much secr as possible, apparently with the idea that mystery will draw bigger crowds than publicit The clection in Cuba to choose mem bers of the constitutional convention is to be held on the third Saturday in Sep- tember. This is another departure from the traditional Tuesday election day, for an explunation may manded. be de The withdrawal of candidates on the fusion ticket of Lancaster county does not indicate any contidence in the boast that fusion will triumph in Bryan's home district. Candidates do not as a rule pull off when there is even a fair chance of succes: General Chaffee i entitled to several credit marks for reporting to the gov- ernment at Washington early, often and in detail. He bas undoubtedly the mak Ing of a first-class war correspondent In addition to the qualifications of an energetic military commander. Mr. Bryan should hasten to re-employ the man with the multiplication table eyes who accompanied him during his last campaign and who can conjure up greater crowds with one sweep of a lead pencil than all the oratory of a sllver-tongued presidential candidate. Not belng able to attack the record of President McKinley the opposition press Is trying to make fuces at Senator Hanna. Anyone would imagine from reading the popocratic organs that Senator Harna was a candidate for every office within the gift of the people, The supreme court will take up the case which involves the validity of the law creating the State Board of Trans portation at a special sitting the first of September. In the meanwhile the do-nothin flway commissioners will continue to draw their salaries and work politics, Just how the fusion state officials will manage it to exclude the populist ticket nominated at Grand Island from the official ballot and find a place for the free silver republicans is a puzzler. When it comes to turning a sharp cor ner in politics, however, the members of the state house crowd arve adepts. It is really too bad that the chairman of the dewocratic state committee is not able to devote all his time to politics instead of checking banks, Chalrman Hall is entirely too thin skinned in de. siring to keep up the appearance of earning his mone, He should tak lesson from the secretaries of the State Board of Transportation. City Treasurer Hennings has won o victory in another personal tax case in which he had issued a distress warrant to compel the collection of delinguent taxes. A few wore officluls like Mr. Hennings in city and county oftices which have to do with the collection of taxes would work a vast lmprovement in the administrution of public affairs, THE PEKIN EXPEDITION The announcement in the House the commander of British forces in China contewplated Immediat ance on Pekin, together with the dispatch from General Chaffec noting a r that the allied forces had decided move at give strong that there further delay of the expedition fe relief of the of the i Commons that ad port 1o once, i$ to be no the foreigners in the Chinese capital. There is still doubt as to all the alli as shown in the commander, 1 operation. It the American act together, 1 on - independent operations think best to do so. Such would very likely prove to be unfortu nate, but better any sort of demonstra tion than keeping the forces at Tsin and prolonging anxiety in regard to the ministers and others in in If it 18 Impossible to agree upon a com mander-in-chief for the allied forces it may be practicable to arraunge a plan of campaign in which the force of each power would tak clearly defined part and while actually independent would practically co-operate with the others, Ro far as the United State concerned, it appears that Chaffee has been instructed to proce as he shall deem best after avqu ing himself with the situation. If he shall think proper' to uct independ ently he is at liberty to do so, but with his relatively small force it is hardly likely that he will decide on that course, 80 that a union of American and Brit Ish forces, in the event of failure to of fect general co-operation, probable. The advance on Pekiu, under whatever clrenmstan made, will e watel with inten interest, for it is every where realized that it must have con sequences of great import to the world, assurAnCe however 1 forces co-operating. dispatch of the British was not c¢ in of ¢ may be, therefore, that nd British forces will ing the others to carry it they 0 course fen a next elections in Cuba will be o8 to a convention which will frame a constitution for an independent government, These will be held in the latter part of September and the vention will meet early in November. It is presumed that th we suffrage qualifications will apply to the coming elections as in those for municipal offi cers that were held last June, In order to be qualified to vo! n must be a native Cuban or a son of a ive male Cuban, born while his parents were temporarily living abroad; or a Spaniard living in Cuba at the tiw r the treaty of Paris, wio has not 1 il ation of his decision to preserve his allegiance to the crown of Spain. He must be 21 years old or upwards on the day preceding the election, He must possess, in addition to the fore going, one or more of the following qualitications —ability to read and write, ownership of real or personal property to the value of $250, Am n gold, service in the Cuban army prior to July 18, 1808, and honorable discharge there. from, whether a native Cuban or not A dispateh from Havana a few days ago stated that the decree calling the coustitutional convention met with al most universal approval and was es- pecially pleasing to those who want independence, Some of the people ave apprehensive of trouble and ditticulty rexulting from placing large responsi bilitles in inexperienced hauds, but the Cuban must learn self-government and it is not to be expected that in doing this they will escape difficulties, The have their party divisions and their self- ish and unscrupulous politicians, but the are capable and worthy men among them whose efforts will be di rected to giving the island good govern ment and placing it politically on a stable basis. So far as the United States I8 concerned it will have done its duty and if the Cuban people shall show themselves unfitted for independ ence it will not be because of any neg lect or dereliction on the part of this government, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? There is diversity of opinion as to the true intent and meaning of the plank in the Kansas City platform relating to the Philippines. By some ‘“anti-im perialists” it is held to mean the sur render of the archipelago, while others contend that such is not necessarily its meaning. The New York Evening Post takes the latter view, as does the At lanta Constitution, the latter declaring that the platform “affords a foothold for both Mr. Bryan and Senator Mor- gan"—the Georgla senator being one of the most ardent of expansionists and uncompromisingly opposed to granting independence to the Philippines. The Atlunta Constitution say i | will be observed that the declaration Is conservative in its nature and per tly clear in its terms. Kvery possi ble duty and responsibility is recognized and provided for. A stable form of government is to be given the Filipinos, not by their own ag but by the agency of this There is noth- ing haphazard in the business. This country is not only to glve the I"ilipinos a stable form of government, but it is to be the judge of its stability. Who can say how long a time will be re quired to train the islanders in the ways and wethods of republican government ? The whole scheme is in the nature of an experiment and yet it is an exper! went which providence has forced upon us.” Upon which the New York Even ing Post remarks that if the Filipine government must be not only stable, but 180 republican, “this requirement will increase the ditieulties of deciding when we shall evacuate the islands on the dewocratic plan and will postpone that event. Senator Jones, chairman of the demo cratie nationul committee, presents i different view from that of the Atiantn Constitution, He if the demo crats are successful in this campaign the pollcy of the United States goverument suys in dealing with the Philippines will be the same as it was announced our policy would be toward Cuba—to give the natives their freedom and permit them to establish thelr own government Asked if the American troops should be withdrawn Joues repl there in ships m the archipelugo Well, we sent the tro 1 guess we can bri them away in ships. We had no moral it to go there in the first place. We liad no more right to send soldiers there to them to fight government in - Burope ¢ with Spain has been over for My than cend Lgainst I'he some time and American troops have no it in the Philippines. The Filipinos are a free and independent ple, or at least they onght to | It is casy enough to understand thix liow the ehairman of the ratic na tional committee interprets the Philip pine plank of the Kansas City platform He regards it as meaning that the United States should immediately withdraw its troops from the islands i it should be borne in mind that mator Jones probably understands Mr. Bryan's position on the sub, well as any man in the countr But we shall have from Mr Bryan himself an authoritative defini tion of the true futent and meaning of that plank of the platform. One week hence he will be formally notitied of lix nomination and it prom ised that he will devote most of his speech on that fon to “imperial ism.” It is quite possible that what he will say will not please all are anxlously awaiting Lis statement of his position. we have any W now soon who WHERE CHAMP ST00D ARS AGO. Congressman Champ Clark i to be admired for the courage of his convic In a speech delivered at Colorado Chautauqua leld in r last week he made the follow Ing declaration: We stand today on the money question precisely where we stood four years ago. Truth does not change to falsehood in four short years. Consequently, at Kansas City we readopted, not merely reafirmed, but re adopted the financial plank of the Chicago platform, in all its integrity and all its force, in spite of all its cajolings, ail threat- enings and all temptations to do otherwise rom the bottom of my heart 1 rejoice that we did so, for if we were right then we right now Champ Clark foreibly exemplifies the adage that the Bourbons never forget anything and never learn anything. The doughty Missourian stands today just where he stood four years ago and he would just as readily stand where Buchanan stood forty years ago. lor him and the Bourbons who make up the Bryanite party the world does not move and experlence counts for noth- ing When he asserts that truth does not change to falsehood in four short years, ‘hamp Clark is eminently correct. The rouble with him is that he does not re- alize, or wunt to realize, that the theo- on the money question advanced in support of 16 to 1 free coinage have been exploded and cast to the winds by the practical demonstration of their fal- lacy. Four years ago Coin Harvey and his diseiples from Bryan to Clark declared that the attempt to maintain the gold standard was a conspiracy on the part of the money power to make money dearer and the products of the farm and factory cheaper. Four years ago these false prophets predicted freely that the election of McKinley and the continu- ance of his financial policy would cause a greater prostration of comierce and the general impoverishment and en- slavement of the producers. Four years of general prosperity have thoroughly dissipated these delusions, Money is more plentiful and interest rates lower, while wages and the prices of all products are highei It may be brave for Champ Clark to stand up against the stubborn facts that have knocked his financ fallacies into smithereens, but the people cannot be fooled by them more than once. Even the people of Colorado ave-no longer to be duped. Champ Clark may continue to stand on the financial plank of the democratic platform where he stood four years ago, but the decayed old plank will not bear his weight and he should not be surprised if he drops with a thud before the campaign is half over. tions. Four years ago we were told that if Ne- braska went “for Bryan and populism’ capital would be driven from the state. braska went for Bryan, and has had a full set of fusion officers ever since. Now listen while the g o. p. organs talk about the wonderful prosperity of Nebraska.— World-Herald True, Nebraska gave Bryan its elec- toral vote four years ago, but Bryan was not elected president. Had Bryan car- ried the country in 1806 there would have been a financial smash-up more disastrous than that of 1803 and it would have taken years of time for the people to adjust themselves to Bryan's fi coinage policy. Nebraska of course would have been in the same boat with the other states, just as Nebraska has been sharing with its sister states the general prosperity that followed the ion of MeKinley and the restoration of confidence. Nevertheless, it is troe that the fact that Bryan carvied Ne braska four ) zo has to a consid erable extent discredited the state with the investors of the east and caused the withdrawal of some institutions and concerns that would otherwise have continued to do business in Nebraska This is notably true of life insurance companies that had helped to develop this city and state in making bullding loans on reasonable The news item about the scarcity of farm labor in the great northwest, which has forced the owners of the Da Kota wheat flelds to appeal to the rail- rond companies for help In obtainin men to harvest the crop, Is another blow at the calamity candidates who have been preaching that present prosperity | was purely fictitous. Four yeurs ugo when the threat of free coin: paralyzing the industries, the had no diffieulty in securing hands they needed was farmers all the The welcowe news comes from China that the Americans and English propose to push on at once for Pekin to relieve the imprisoned ministers, whether t the co-operation of the powers or not.' There Is reason to be lleve that the Chinese are not united have other DAILY | Nebraska. the | BEE DAY, Tien Tsin has somewhat disheartened them, If that 18 the case an energetic dush for the capital might be successtul Our amiable popocratic contemporary intimates that the Chicago Record wiil daily if it undertakes to print all the communica wting misstatements of Wil liam E. Curtis in his letters bearing on the political aud industrial situation in We presume this particularly fo the w at the publishier of the hyphenated ot in b aspirations for U, 8. 8. have to enlarge fts jssnies tions cor refors Protes been tiled with the retary of state against placing the words “silver republican” on the ticket opposite the names of fuston candidates. The reasons alleged are fdentical with thos which are included in the popecratic protest against the certificate of the mid-roud popullsts, It ought not to be lard, however, for the state house machine to discover a distinetion with out a differenc sec The Towa bank deposits in 1806 wes S43000,000. AL the last reports in 1900 th SOL000,000. These flgur are for the banks operating under st charters only and the national bunks show i fneren With this sum to their credit for four years of re publican administeation lowa iy be relied on to vote for four years more of the same Kind. Towne will not attend the In notitication were similar Mr. napolis meeting. to the B view at place. 1 kite exposed to the public one and the same time and Advice fo Hoston Advice for dog days Do Days. Globe. Don't whine! Perpetunl Revolutl v York Tribun Boxers may come and “Bobs" may go but the Colombian revolution goes on for- ever. Endless Chain e Pr Baltimore American The emperor of China evidently intended starting an endless chain system of peace proposals, Title for a New Hook. St. Paul Dispatch Mr. Bryan may well begin making arrangements with his publishers for *‘The Second ‘Defeat,” or “How It Happened to Happen Again as Lt Caught Between Bas Washington Post Li Hung Chang will not hesitate to re- sort to all of the subterfuges of the ball player who is caught between basés. Text tan Stump Speaker. Troy (N. ¥.) Republican An Indian has been engaged to make stump speeches for Bryan. Probably he will be expected to enlarge upon the dan- gers involved in government without the consent of the governed. New York Tribune. WIIl Mr. Bryan please tell us how be 1s going to let the ¥ilipinos establish thelr own government under a protectorate, if the constitution, as he says, exterds to all territory of the United States? Time for Pol Chicago Inter Ocean. The farmers of lowa, Nebraska and Kan- sas are 80 busy they are making it known to democratic canvassers that it will be impossible for them to give any more time to politics this fall than may be required for their attendance at republican rallles and at the polls, where they intend to vote the republican ticket. Value of Free Rural Boston Transcript It is estimated that free rural mail de- livery is iIncreasing the value of land in Colorado, where it is in operation, $5 an acre. The postoffice has long been looked to as an instrumentality of social advance second to none, only it has not begun to be utilized as yet in this country up to plain possibllities, as shown in other countries elivery. T FOR THE HOUSE. cd the Warn- n Babeock. San Francisco Call Chairman Babcock of the republican con- gressional campalgn committee has once more given warning to the party of the danger that the various elements of opposi- tlon to the administration may carry so many congressional districts as to ive the control of the house of representatives. Such success on the part of the malcon- tents ‘would prevent the enactment of many important measures that are expected of the next congress, and thereby seriously in- terfere with the progressive welfare of the country. In describing the situation Mr. Babcock, after pointing out that in the southern states the Bryanites have 120 congressmen sure, and that almost every state that gives its electoral vote for Bryan will send a solid Bryan delegation to the house, went on to eay: “For our part, the states which will give their electoral votes to the republicans will at the same time have 40 per cent of thelr congressional delegations democratic. Just look at the democratic representation in this congress from New York, Penneylvania, New Jersey and other strongholds of republicanism on national tssues. The eleciion of republican electors from the state of New York is not going to pull through the republican representa tives from New York City distrlcts. West of the Missour| river we will have to fight to hold what we already have. In the northwest there are some districts which are too close in their pluralties to be com- fortable. That will push into New York, Peunsylvania and Massachusetts make gains to offset almost certain losses in some middle west districts. The fight will come to a point where every vote will count." These statements must not be looked upon as & mere campaign exaggeration de signed to rouse political ardor. They are fully justified by the facts once or twice had occasion to direct atten- tion to a movement among gold democratl papers In the east to support democratic candidates for congress while opposing Bryan. It is therefore certain that in man congressional districts the vote for the Bryanite candidate for representative will be larger than the vote for Bryan himself The old dyed-in-the-wool free traders have ted the presidency of McKinley solely because they had no other recourse against Bryanism, but they will be very willing tc handicap bis administration by the electior of a democratic house, and doubtless a good many of them will seek to do so, in cordance with the counsel of their eastern organs In the fac us to of such an emergency a grave onsibility rests upon the republicans ¢ state where fhere is & single con gressional district in doubt. The margin of republican control fn the present con gress is so small that the Bryanites will have to gain very few seats to overthrow it There 1s therefore uot a district in which and that in addition the tghting llim‘, party can afford to take chances, bouquets Mr. Curtis | 1t | would not look well to have both tails The Call has | AUGUST 1, 1900. WAR IV S0t AFRICA, Since my last meeting with Mr. Kruger two years ago he has become more venerable in and have lost | physical vigor,” says Allen Sangree in Alr “His hair is white and his complexion pale and his e as & good burgher put it mind one of a hippopotamus. His bim trouble and over them he at all smoke-colored specta with . Two little gold rings in his cars, that were put in when he was a youngster, show plainly against the white hair. He smokes less than formerly, drinks more coffee and while talking spits in a nervous, jerky manner. The war has proved a terrible strain on the old Transvaal triot's nervous vitality For the first time in his life he has been compelled to forego the habits of a lifetime and Pretorians tell with wonderment how they have seen him working at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning with his secretaries ‘80 exhausted has he heen on several oc- caslons that he mounted with great diffi- culty Into the anclent Dutch bed which came out from Holland with the first Jacob Kruger. This bed s five feet from the floor and is reached by a stairway. It is a pon- derous affair, shaped like a pyramid, broad velow and narrow at the top. A wide strip on one side prevents his honor from falling overboard It has been Mr. Kruger's cus- tom to retire to this couch at 7 in the even- log and arise at 4 But with the arrival of telegrams and couriers from the front, his rest is constantly interrupted “Not 80 with his working regime. Though haggard in countenan he s er one ®econd late in arriving at the Raad House at 9 a. m. So punctual is he that when the clock shows exactly sixty minutes past 11 he breaks off abruptly, sometimes in the middle of a word, and stalks from the room o poesible contingency, apparently, would p him after that moment At 2 o'clock he i3 again at his post and remains there until 4. appearance scems 1o lee's. sparse maseive to me, eyeo give now snow ashy cles, auze sid “Speaking of the conduct of the war, I asked Mr. Kruger if he was discouraged *‘Discouraged!' he answered, ‘No. We have a very difficult job on band, but Prov- tdence has been with us from the start and therefore we have prevailed. Our numhers are always less and the casualties ten to in our favor.' ‘How many have you lost thus far? ere huve been 420 burghers killed in tle and about 4,000 either wounded or ptured.’ “ ‘How have 1 one many the English ost 2" xty thousand.' They clalm a much smaller loss,’ 1 re- marked. * ‘But you cannot belleve them,’ the presi- dent unswered. ‘At Spion kop they put the number of killed at 200. We counted 500" ‘ ‘How fleld Thirty forty thousand from both states is the most we have ever had actually under arms. Now the number s less. 1 make it a rule to have 10 per cent of the army always on leave of absence, because our people are only few, and 1 must take care of them. At the Tugela river they lost because they were 5o sleepy from constant watching that they tumbled from their horses. This weakens the commandos. Then besides 1 must keep a good many burghers to guard the railroads, the magazines, the priconers and watch the natives.' ‘Do you conside; the English soldier a brave man?' I inquired. ““‘Yes,' was the reply; ‘but he is only an animal. He does not know what he is fight- ing for. It is a shame to send these poor fellows out to be killed and 1 pity them. They do what their officers tell them and that is why they get killed. Very few of them can shoot straight. They usually aim over our heads. The English soldier does not know how to take care of his horse, either, and without & horse in this country the soldler is nothing.’ “It Kruger insists on any one thing in this campaign it i careful handling of horses. It Is certainly an unusual thing to hear the president of the state exborting his troops about such small details as to caution them againet allowing the eaddie to rub the horse’s back. But this seemed to be the principal theme of an address which I heard Kruger deliver to some raw recruits start- ing off to tae front “*‘Watch the burghers,’ he said, ‘how the hobble their ponies and then do likewl You must all remember never to give the horse a feed of mealies and then water him atterward, for he will ly die. No more ride him to water and then gallop away. Give him a blanket at night, too, and at all times treat him as you would yourself, for if we win it must be with the aid of this animal.’ “The greatest do you think many burghers have you in the importance is attached (o this feature of Boer equipment, and the burghers do not believe England can ever procure horees that will stand the climate. The South African pony is the result of one hundred years' experimenting. He originated in Basutoland, where the best quality is now procured. At first a pony would not live there, and it has been only by persistent interbreeding and inuring to the conditions that a serviceable horse has at last been produced. The Boer pony is about the sizo of an Indian mustang and so tough and wiry that he will travel all day if handled care- tully “*“How long will this war last?' T inquired of President Kruger, after he had askel me to affirm in his name that he had never cou- templated blowing up the mines, nor would such action be taken even in the last ex- tremity I have n his reply live." idea as to the duration,' was o long as 1 and my followers the impression that Iy prevalls as to the presence here of foreign experts, No greater mistake is current than this. The Transvaal artil- lery, which is supposed to be mauaged by Russian and German gunners, is really in the hands of young Boers and the engineer ing feats that have been accomplished must be credited to the Transvaal farmer He it 15 who builds pontoons out of railroad ties, hauls a twelve-ton cannon up a moun tain and executes damage with artillery To belong to the latter must be burgher and nearly every gun today in the Boer forves is sighted by lads between 17 and 21 years old. The foreign attaches will all testify to this, and, furthermore, bear me out in saying that better marksmanship with big guns 1s not to be seen than behind the Boer parapets “In bidding good-by to Mr. Kruger 1 asked him if he and his people would ac cept an asylum in America, to which he re plied that it was impossible. ‘We are a peculiar people, said, ‘and if God wills that we independence than it is better that should all pass away Wherever a Boer would live he must ever | brood over his thoughts. The women will never forget that their husbands died the English hands; the children will grow | up to hate the conqueror and wherever fs | such bitterness there cou'd no happines | be. No, it is better that we die, for ther euch burgher can say to himself, “I have | tought the good fight, I have finished the | course, 1 have kept the faith. Henceforth | there 15 1aid up for me a crown of right “I wish to correct Eene one a lose our we at Summer Giel's Troubies, Baltimore American summer girl is having a hard time (hese days keepiug at the top notch | public attention and the government is still further increasing her troubles by or dering eligible young men—scarce enough in the most balcyon times of peace—on for eign duty, The HEARD FROM ONC and the w me to MORE. | contentedly, laying awiny attend to." there's the mending in camphor balls fower o e Clamorin ve Its o N Philadelphia Inquirer Kansas never does things by halves. It either has too much or too little of every- thing As a result it is always asking the rest of the country to help it out. When the drouths come along and spoil its har- Vest It cheerfully or sorrowfully, as the case may be, borrows all the money that it can find and blankets its farms with mort Kages at all kinds of interest. Then it howls calamit, nd organizes farmers' alll- ance, 1 come good crops and good prices, there is plenty of water and no cy- lones. In a few months it ralses all its mortgages and blossoms out as the finest kind of a prosperity state. A the present Kansas wants cars to | move its crop. It is such a buster that the | provisions made by the railroads fall far | short of the actual need and o the word | goes forth st and west and north and south: “Kansas wants cars.”” Cars it must have and it will get them if it has to break into the other states and steal them. And when it gets through with sending its wheat to the market it will once more ralse the cry for cars to move its corn crop, which promises to be the largest in many years. Well, let it have the cars and stop Its bawling. This much at least we have to be thankful for. Kansas people are too busy getting in their crops to cry calamity and there are few alliance men left in the state, for Cars News: “lanbel, 1 swear to love you to my last breath “Well, Charley, the kind of liquor you've had tonfght fs strong enough to make your Breath last always. That means that [ have an cternal love efneh Denver Harper's Bazar: Farmer Hornbeak What's vour city nephew's business® Farmer Gapp—Why, he plays golf most of the time. Farmer Hornbeak-—Huh! business=it's & disease Indianapolts Journal: Democrat—1 would JKke Bryan's picture on @ rural background of xome kind Republican That aln't a the Yes A windmill “If 1 had Jt to do ove, tired looking woman think I'd marry a Wash lagain, in the e t an epleure?’ Are you so great an epl ARG DAL Would be 4 comfort to do the complaining myself “about the marketing {and the management of the kitchen k3 DEBUTANTE. gton Post emarked th to ocery store, 1 Willlam Hamilton Hayne, Leslie's Monthly. Who has an arch and mirthful air, et_when her chaperone 18 near Seems like an_angel unaware? The debutante. to be extolled and fanned, when you hold her hand dn't understand ? he debutante Who Yet blush As If she Who has a partner in advance For ey werman, play and dance, And slays @ heart with every glance? p o he debutante FLASHES OF WIT, Who leaves a ball and german late, And loves an alcoved tete-a-tote, And sees no serious side to Fate? The debutante. Tndianapol's Journal wheat crop this year mortgages on Kansas farm “H'm: we've heard an about those Kansas mortgages. There must have been about a thousand mortgages to every farm in Kansas.” Cleveland Plain Dealer the trap, you say? Was it 1 ¥ big “The will great Kans pay off many L L Who at the table takes her seat n grand banquet hall complete, Yet is too dellcate to eat? The debutante. he bear broke big bear? But it was mad clear Who welcomes with a rippling laugh The many flattering toasts you quaf?, And finds in them more wheat than chaft? The debutante. ngered it . it had been shot at twice and then that little sawed off Billingsby came uj with his camera and planted it and tool aim at the bear, and—well, the bear just couldn't stand {t! He gave a snort and & roar und bri the trap—and 1 guess Bill. Ingsby is running yet!"” Philadelphia Press: “Oh, claimed Adam philosophically evietion, “If we have to w have to, und that's all ther i that fsn’t all,” s Who lfstens with a coy content To words of love from warm hearts sent, Yot tells you they were never meant? The debutante. Who fs it makes the veteran sage Lagging “superflaous on the stage” Of soclal life, forget his age? ‘T'he debutante, well' ox after the T clothes we about it apped | w And With » 1% 1t has unbounded fun alecps ‘not Uil the rising all of Cupid's work well he debutante. aun Ul don No Clothing Fits Like Ours. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. THE BEST SALE OF ALL THE BEST CLOTHING OF ALL Bears the name of Browning, King & Co., good clothing can be had at a number of stores, but the kind that “fits” and wears, and keeps its shape and color, and doesn’t rip and that you cannot tell from the high priced cus- tom tailors, is made in OUR FACTORY and retailed by our own stores. OTHER STORES CANNOT BUY it. nor can they copy it, try as they will, every stitch is warranted; it is absolutely perfect. Our store rooms are packed full of this kind of clothing for the fall and winter use, and it is arriving every day. Never before have we realized the vastness of our business nor been so cramped for the necessary space to trans. act it We must have the room; therefore commencing Thursday, August 2d, we place our entire stock of men’s, boys’ and children'’s suits (except black clays) on sale at 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT This sale includes all kinds of suits, light weight, medium weight and heavy weight— understand all of our winter goods that were left over go in this sale. entire stock of suits, None Reserved from the cheapest to the highest, this special discount goes. We lay the chance before you. Wil you accept it? NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS This applies to our ANOTHER SPECIAL ALSO Any of our $1.50 Negligee Shivts will be sold for $1,00 cach, The best brands arve represented—Star, Manhattan, ete. Some with collars and cuffs to match, some with cuffs attached and detached—see window. Browning, King & Co., R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Omaha's Oaly Exclusive Clothicrs tor Me¢n and Hoya