Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 4, 1900, Page 6

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The ke of Emperor Willium the emperor of China is not couched o the usual diplomatic phrases, but to the polnt, just the same | s to Roosevelt will earry the news back to | the Eupire that the Nebraska praicies ave alive with republicans and | that patriotisin here overshadows poli- | ties every time. Bryan has started out to prove to the | Wisconsin dairymen that they are not | doing 8o well as they were four years | ago. The market quotations ave sadly at varlance with his assertions. state The heaviest frost of the se recorded at Indianapolis, T1 great gathering of democratic elans from all over the country fizzled out so that on duy barely 1,000 son pected opening b present. wer Omaba never undertook any great pro Ject or public enterprise that involved an addition to the bonded debt or an in of taxation which did not en counter protests from the heavy prop erty owuers. —_— Just to show that they have no appre. hension about the mid-road movement the fusion popullsts are still trying to | keep the mid-roaders off the ticket. This 18 another case where actions speak louder than word; crease ac Count von Waldersee announces that he will oceupy one of the palaces in the Forbidden Clty ou his arrival at Pekin | What has become of the knockdown | house which was taken along when the count left Germany? | | Prince Tuan has an equity in a larg collection of peacock feathers and yellow | shirts which he will doubtless sell cheap. The goods are slightly damaged, but will probubly be serviceable again as | 000 as the allics are out of China | il o o | Attorney General Smyth has been | obliged to back out and start again in ! his 8tandard Oil case, through an over | | sight In drawing up the papers. The | great *trust-smasher should be mor | careful to get the correct range before | he fires his big guns | It DOW turns out tnat the stories about | the defection of ex-President Harrison | from the republican cause are pure popo rratic fakes. This falsehood s brande by ex-President Harrison himself, who will be heard from in the campalgn ad vocating the re-election of President Me Kinley. | Mr. Bryan will be the guest of Croker while in New York as a special compl ment to the Tammany bull reformers, How do the sincere aud honest popu lists, who like to hear themselves re ferred to as members of the reform forces, like this indication of the coming reform? The latest batch of captured Filipino correspondence ndicates that the sole rellance and the sole object of the na tives Is to coutinue the fight against American autbority in the hope that Bryan may be elected. On which side do the loyul voters of this eountry pro pose to allgn themsclveswith the | 1t e | unything practi | cutes that u part ¢ possession, where lie is serving as treas | bend to the poople | 1 | STRINE SITUATION | conl belng wmined in but nearly all th THE There the anthracite miners in the the leaders have not abated thelr fforts to induce others to join. In this they Laps a reglon are now Involved strike and nay not be successful, though per od deal depends on the future e offer noof a 10 per cent in would doubtless be ac it by concessions, particnlarly the the but this none of the operators appear disposed to do it they test way action of made by operators, the wiges the kome of crease in copted by men other aceompanie rec gnition of union, ud adhere to this position the con o pr pron I nged one fact holding & to or The most in the situa tlon is the movem of the position sing it for con ventlon miners the y of ators and watters connected with the strike wot be contidently predicted that | il will vesult from this action has been taken | divection indi winers are dis consl wage other the o} but the by ot t local this the lodges in posed to adopt a concllintory course and while these are doubtless a minority it. Mean showing commend thelr intiuence may be huportd while the winers are able Judgmicut o conducting themselves and giving | There sy mpithy the ua quiet wind orderly 1o trouble way the authorities is that | thew which ought to In ) question 1blic gener ally that almost that uni Just remedied | | witl | they have aud they will retain S0 their tuls sympathy long urge demands peace or | us they There bas been i to thelr W partlsan purpose, s mis prescatation as condition, wanifestly wade for that their com that € pevertheless true plaints are in the main just and they are fully warranted in asking for A remo 10 PURTO Rit( u ended That fears for the fu mnre il that islund is report thut Speéuking of the Porto Rican tarift, Dr. J. M. Hollander, rly of the professors of political economy at Johus Hopkins university and after year of people of Porto Rico dis yed by Bryanite orators are eutirely foothold the people o reliubic 15t of every comes from t direction, tori one HOW visit on a lome nearly a our new the for rer for govermnent and bas special tucilities observation, I8 quote suying | uothing more uncalled for | otionulism that States the Porio Rican The weasure was Bod of the island aud the cry United States fouud no | It bas beeu (be meaus ot helping the natives to get upon their feet, to speak, and has done all tba hose who advocated it In congress ciatined it would do. Had It not passed, cne of (w (hiugs would have been (he inevitable re- | sult—u burdensome internal tax on the people or a subsidy from the United Sia.es. The first would Lave been heavy 1o carry; the other altermative would have wade the islapders wards of charity and would have further encouraged them In From practical demonstration of the operations of (he act, I am more thau conviuced of the wisdom of the mearure As to the finapces of the fsland, I woud say that in the place of a deficlency we have now a surplus of about $350,000, a most encouraging omen. My budget this year will net bout $2,000,000, rcalized as tollows: Customs in Porto Rico, $1,000,000; Perto Rican customs in the United States, $600,000, and from the internal revenue of the island, $600,000. The facts about Porto Rico all point to a wonderful fmprovement of condi tions in the island since the transfer from Spain to the United States, and the people of Porto Rico, far plaining of their treatment, would not back voluntarily to old conditions any more thun the people of the United States would exchange thelr present prosperity again for the hard times that preceded the electlon of McKinley. I can {maglne the wave of e L d 1easure rn Bwept tarif “ against it in the echo in Porto Rico 50 oo ness from com ALARMED BY IMPERIALISM. | The Demoeratic Honest Moy league | of Maryland is not alarmed by the cry of | lnperiulism. It regards the danger of a | punic, In the event of the success of the free sllver party, as a vastly more serl ous matter to the American people than the question of Philippine policy. A late publication of the league says: *It would take yeurs to muke a material chauge In our government, but & panic, with all its horrors, may be brought on ina day. W refuse treat a pan as u cheap price to pay for stopplug the false cry of imperialism until we are as sured thut our form of government is in serious damger. We will not make that bargain in haste. We must huve stronger evidence than has yet been fur uishied that the cry of imperialism has | some better basis than the partisau ob- | to be obtained by raising it. Any | erument it may be desired | to establish in the new possessious, by | either the Bryanites or by the so-called | impertalists, cunnot be completed In oue idential term, nor even advanced be yond recall. But Mr. Bryan, 1o one day | of bis term, cun destroy our | financlal system, bring on a panic, our credit and stop the mar trlu) progress, now halted, merely awuit | lug notice of his defeat.” This is the view of substantial busi [ ness and professional men and it [ well found Bryan's election would | | be immediately followed by a general | | und severe contraction of credits und | | business and if he should direct the pay went of coln obligations of the govern: | {ment in silver panic would ceftaluly | i.-mu« Alr in anticipation of the | possible success of the Bryanite party, there I8 caution iu financial and bust circles. While the one hand | | the success of the republican party | | ns that the present commercial de- | lopment of the country will coutinue | aloug clear and stable lines, it is reco nized that the triumph of Bryanisw | | meuns commerciul and tinancial dis | uster, the extent of which would be in | caleulable, ANl of the upbuilding, the | progress and the financial and commer- | NOT Ject form of g pre | Seut ruin | h of indus- | is| | ness on | e | v | ‘lhlu\\ | would *have | men | to THE would it threaten which would take to emerge. Leading manufacturers through the country the opluion that a republican victory in November will be followed by industrial and com mercial wetivity greater than the coun try has ever known, whereas if the re port on the morning after election tells of the success of the other party there will e for a time something ke paralysis, certaluly stagnation, and there will be no attempt made greatly to in vest capital in haportant enterprises un til it shall be discovered what the per wanent effect of a change of administr tion is to be, a from intry years out express Ihiese are considerations which should nd the thoughtful attention of citizen, Twperiulism is a false wade to divert attention from the real purposes of the Bryanite chiet aimong which Is the over the gold standard. No man who has contidence In the intellige and the patriotism of the American peo iously belleve there But all men of practical experience and Judgment can cot every is and empty cry party Is of ce ple can s is uny dunger of imperialism understand the peril fnvolved in the suc which to de financial system revolutionize establishied institutic cess of 4 party proposes stroy our present and MR BRYAN'S COUNSELORS. Senator Hoar Mr. Br, should be elected the one wost powerful in the will York it will be . “the political despot of Ther no Altgeld and Towue Williams and Sulger, other exponents of suys that if force counsel at New his Fillmian, as in rd Croke epir ith the stute is bt nbout this, or that Fred wention and Geo not to re pudiation and soctalism, would be i his For to where would he get them uuless among men of this kind? counsel as president Bryan have counselors and In order to carry out lis policies be must have as advise who are in full wecord with those policies and Le canuot find them among old-line Such s are supporting him do not agree with I the principles he stands for. Mr. Bryan has suld that he has made no promises to Croker or any regard o cabinet positions. But everybody must understand that it elected be could not ignore Croker, par ticularly if he should get the electe vote New York. The the Tamwany boxs would have and at with, and we would not be modest demunds. The fact that Mr. Bryan would have select such men for his counselors well commund the ser of citizens. the democruts, of these one else in 1 demands of to par® com of considered least il plied wmay be sure they us cousld Who may eration conservative that is rational would entrust the credit, | honor and welfare of the country to Croker, Tillman and Altgeld? THE STATUS OF SOUTH OMAHA The increase in the census population South Omaha raising it above the 00 mark will without doubt even tually Mre th ty into another classi fication for purposes of wunicipal gov ernment. Under the present law there is a division and distinction in the charter applying to cities having more than 25,000 inhabitants from that plying to those having less than 25, inhabitauts. The charter enacted, however, to gov ern cities of the first cluss, with wore than 25,000 inhabitants, was made par ticularly with reference to the city of of 000 Lincoln and containg many provisions entirely uufitted to and out of place for South Omuha. Any attempt to foree upon South Omaba the expensiye and inappropriate government iwposed by the Lincolu charter would therefore be not only an unnecessary burden upou the taxpayers, but a decided detriment to the growth and progress of the clty. South Omuba with its pecullar condi- tions of busiuess and population is en titled to a charter framed with a view to its needs and requirements. With the legislature only a few months off, capable of responding to this dewand, it would be unwise, to use a wild term, to attempt to reorganize the city gov- ernwent at the present time. As & matter of fact there Is no neces sity for immediate reorganization be- cause the stututes are not self-operative and nothing 15 to be lost by a few months' deluy. On the contrary, the in termeddling of outside parties with South Omaha is prompted purely by po- litical motives with the evident purposc | of muking political capital for the pend ing cawpuign by precipitating contusion among the people of South Owaba ay to the status of their city. The supreme court of Michigan has handed down an opinion declaring un constitutional the sugar bounty passed by the legislature three ugo offering inducements by which sev years or for the state, Michigan has secured the fuctories, which cannot be taken away, but much oun the same plan t Ne braska secured two of its sugar facto- | rles, by enacting legislation which w soon repealed. These experiments, Low ver, fully prove that beet sugar cau be successfully manufactured fn the agri cultural belt of the United States. While the industry needs protection | while 1n the experimental stage, it has been brought to a self-sustaining basis in Nebras] and can also be made self- sustaining in Michigan, Another negro at the stake Just to show that the black mau has no rights which the white man ueeds to respect in the soutliern states, where democracy has wot only disfranchised the negroes, but deprived them of eivil and legal rights as well, tles of the constitution burned The guaran could not he overridden any further by the sultan of Bulu. E—— The complaint entered by popocrats | United Btates or under the bauuer of | cial rehabilitation of the past four years | ygainst Governor Roosevelt's specches nsurrection? would be undermined to an extent that Is that they “appeal to the baser pas- OMAHA DAIL ap- | law | 1 beet sugar factories were secured | Y BEE: THURSDAY, Roosevelt’s Kansas Clty “Strenuous” is the word that describes Governor Roosevelt better than any other The energy of the man is nothing less than explosive. The words come from his mouth 8 with the force of dymamite. In talking he uses his hands, his arms and his shoul ers as effectively as his tongue. His ge ticulation could not be more active if were a Frenchman. It is the same, whether he is discoursing on politics or speaking of a book or a plcture. He has what might called the habit of pounding what he says nto his hearers. He nest to a phenomenal degree. His mannerisms are clearly the cxpressions of a nature that is sbarply aggressive. The Interruptions and interrogations with which he consta meets on the stump and which would greatly annoy most speakers he keenly en Joys. It was a manifest pleasure to Roose velt to beat the Armourdale cavilors fnto «ubjection and to compel their attention there wore anything the makeup of Roosevelt bis life would be a perpetual tragedy. He is, happlly, re deemed from that curse by a nature which, though extremely positive, {s completely wholesome. He 1s disposed to look upon 1ite a proposition fn which the good areatly overbalances the evil. He has high Ideals, but he s not of the class of trans- he or morbid in Selections from A peaceful and commereial civh always in dauger of the Joss of the virile, fighilag qualities without which v mation, however cultured, however re fined, however thrifty and prosperous, can AVEr awount to anything zation is sutfering | 1t 18 & good thing to appeal o citizens to | work for good government, beeause it will better their estate materially, but it 1s a far better thing to appeal to them to work for goud government, because it s the right thing to do The worst offense that can be committed inet the republic the ottense of th public man who betrays his trust; but oud only com tries persuade | and efficient pubic unworthy. This is a committed in a great Downright foul less dangerous ments, sneers are the meancst 18 to others that honest wman dishoncst wrong that can many difterent way muy be, after all, thun incessant misstates those half-truths (bat lies an is or b i Our nation i« that one among uations of the earth which hold hands the fate of the coming years enjoy exceptional advantages, and mepaced by exceptional dangers, and signs indicate that we shall either greatly or succeed greatly. 1 firmly be lleve that shall succerd, but we mus not foollshly blink at the dangers by whicn we are threatened, for that is the way fail. On the contrary, we set to work to find out all can about the existence and extent of every evil, wust acknowledge it to be such, and must thea attack It with upylelding resolution. There are many such evils, ch must be fought after a separate fushion, yet there 18 one quallty which we must briog to the solution of every problem, that is, an in tense and fervid Americanism. Weo shall never be successful over the dangers which confront us, we shall never achleve true greatness, nor reach the lofty ideal which the founders and preservers of our mighty tederal republic have set before us, unless we are Americans lu heart and soul, in spirit aud purpose, keenly alive to the responsibility in the very name of Ameri- can, and proud ‘beyond measure of the glorlous privilege of bearing it all in th its are all tail we we and e To decent, upright citizens it is bardly necessary to preach the doctrine of moral | 1ty as applicd to the affairs of public lite It Is an even graver offense to sin against tho commonweaith than to sin against an individual. The man who debauches our public life, whether by malversation of funds in office, by tho actual bribery of | voters or of legislators, or by the corrupt use of offices as spoils wherewith to reward the unworthy and viclous for their noxious and interested activity in the baser walks of political life—this man is & greater foe to our well being as & nation than is even the defaulting cashier of & bamk, or the betrayer of a private trust, We rightfully valuo success, but som times we overvalue it, for we tend to fo et that success may be obtained by means which should make it abhorrred aud de- spised by every honorable man he prime thing that every man who takes an interest iu politics should remember Is that he must act and not merely criticlse the actions of others. It s not the wan who sits by his fireside reading his evening paper and saying how bad our politics and politiclans are who will ever do auything to save us; it is the man who goes out into the rough hurly-burly of the caucus, the pri mary and the political meeting and there faces his fellows on equal terms. The real service Is rendered not by the critic, who stande aloof from the coutest, but by the man who enters luto it and bears his part as a man should, undeterred by the blood and the sweat. It {s a pleasant but a dan | gerous thing to associate merely with cult! | vated, refined men of high ideuls and sin | cere purpose to do right and to think that one has done all one's duty by discussing politics with such assoclates. It is & good thiug to meet men of this stamp; inde it 1s @ necessary thing, for we thereby brighten our ideals and keep in touch with the people who are unselfish in thelr pur poses; but if we with such men exclusively we can accomplish nothing. associate The people that do harm in the end are vot the wrongdoers whow all exe they are the men who do not as much but who applauded Ingtead of being execrated career Benedict Arnold has no harm s & nation because of the universal horror it inspired | The men who have done us harm are those | who have advocated disunion, but have done it 8o that they have been enabled to keep their political position; who have advocated repudiation of debts or other financlal dis honesty, but Lave kept thelr standing n the community; who preach the doctrine of an archy, but refrain froi pction that will | bring them within the pale of the law; for 1o quit wrong are Th us of done OCTOBER 4, 1900. Personality Star (nd.-rep.) cendentailsts adaptation lever in th as he can command for the purposes which contemplate He understands that party organizations are ot without serious faults and llmita tions, but holds them as necessary the American scheme of government It Is the nature of Governor Roosevelt to keep something golng on. His whole character is an {llustration of indefatigable itdustry. He works like a steam englne He the strain of this ceaseless activity a rigld adherence to the most careful habits. He s abstemious and athl He knows the value of alr exercise and timely This gives him a splendid physical reinforcement for his tireless brain 1t 1 not casy to think of bim as a man who would break up or collapse under any normal prossure. He is robust and intense at every point. His strong, white teeth and his rugged features are the outward and visible signe of qualities within the man which ex plain all that he has achleved, and which give the public a clue to his singular power on the stump. There Is no better sample of a fine, strong and symmetrical American in public life today than Theodore Roosevelt who cannot comsent to the means to ends. He la & be 1se of such practical agencies chievement of right results offsets Roosevelt Sentiments the writings of Theodoro Roosevelt these men lead thousands astray by the fact that they go unpunished or even rewarded for their misdeeds To men of certaln kind trade and prop- erly are far wore sacred than life or honor, of far more consequence than the great thoughts and lofty emotions, which alone make a nation mighty. They belleve, with a faith almost touching iu its utter feeble- ness, t the “Angel of Pcace, draped in a garment of untaxed calico,” has given her final message to men when she has implored them to devoto all their euergies to produc Ing olcomargarine at a quarter of & cent less a firkin, or to lmyporting woc s for frace ton less than they can be made at home. the offense of the niun who These solemn prattiers strive afier an {deal | in which they can happily unlte the imag ) grocer with the heart of They are utterly incapa of feeling one thrill of generous emotion the slightest throb of that pulse which gives to the world statesmen, warrfors and pocts, and which makes a nation other than a cumberer of the world's surfuce tnatlon of a gr Bengalee baboo ) or Every man who wishes well to his country honor bound to take an active part in al 1ife. It he does his duty and takes tive part he will be sure occastonally to make mistakes and to be guilty of short- comings. For these mistakes and shortcom- 1ngs he will receive the unmensured denun- clution of the critics, who commit neither Lecause they never do anythiug. Neverth less he will have the satlsfaction of know- Ing that the salvation of the country ulti- mately lies, but in the hands of those who, perfectly, tion however im- ually do the work of the na- We need fearless criticlsm of our publie men and public parties; we need unsparing condemnation of all persons and all prin- ciples that count for evil in our public life; but it behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, important though 1t is, is of altogether secondary im- portance and that, in the end, progress fs accomplished by the man who does the things and not by the man who talks about how they ought or ought not to be done. Yet another thing ta be remebered by the man who wishes to mrke his influence felt for good in our politics is that he must act purely as an American. If he s not deeply imbued with the American spirit ho cannot succeed. Any organization which tries to work along the liae of caste creed, which fails to treat all American cltizens on their merits as men, will fail, and will deserve to fail. Where our politi- cal life is healthy there is and can be mo room for any movement organized to help or antagonize men because they do or do not profess a certain religlous, or becanse they were or were not born here or abroad. We bave & right to ask that those with whom we associate, and thor for whom we vote, shall be themselves ®0ad Americans in heart and spirlt, and acting without regard to the national and religlous @rejudices of European coun- tries, but if they are really good Ameri- cans In spirit and thought and purpose, that s all that we have any right to consider in regard to them. In the same way there must be no discrimination for or against any man because of his social standing. or Another thing that must not be forgotten by the man desirous of doing good politi- cal work I8 the need of the rougher, man- lier virtues, and ubove all the virtue of versonal courage, physical as well as moral The foes of order harm quite s much by example us by what they actually me- complish. 8o it is with the equally danger ous crimnals of the wealthy classes. Thelr conscienceless stock speculator, who ncquires wealth by swindling bis tellows, by debauching judges and corrupting legis- latures aud who ends his days with the reputation of being among the richest men In America, exerts over the mind of the rising generation an influence worse than that of the average murderer or bandit, beckuse his career is even more daszling In its success and even more dangerous in its effects upon the community There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duly, regard- less of every principle, bent only on Amassing & fortune and putting his for. tune only to the basest uses—whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck raflroads himself, or to allow his son to lead @ life of foolish and expeusive idle ness and gross debauchery, or to purchase cme scoundrel of high soclal positicn, for- clgn or native, for his daughter. Such man {s only the more dangerous as he oc casionally does some deed like founding a ccllege or endowing a church, which causcs those good people, who' are also foolish, to forget his real iniquity. Theso men are cqually careless of the workingmen, whom they oppress, and of the state, whose ex- Istence they impertl a | slons.” This is decidedly rich coming from the friends of Bryun, who hus been dofug nothing but appealing to passion and stirring up prejudice since he be came a public figure vernor G Poynter cited because diers in the Philippines as “$15-a-month :h:rvlluun” hus naturally aroused the in | dignation of all who served in the wa | or bad friends in the service. Any apol | ogles called for should come | ernor Poynter. B The Right Theory. Hrooklyn Eagle Russia agrees with us that China should punish her own offenders. That s the right theory. Bome of our police justices have need not to get ex his e the sol rom Goy | suspended sentence on bad boys when their | parents consented to spank them in view of the court. Then it wis sure that they | were spanked he principle of this judg- | ment may apply in China | Think of the Tee Parties, Baltimore Amcrican The man who plays golf all the often does work than if he alf & cord of wood In the shed at but he does not think ternocn more [ home cehing Truths Avolded. Detrolt Journal | Any and every attempt to haul down one {of Mark Hanou's deliberate statements ot | fact 1 attended by a patuful collapse of the party that makes the attempt Moods of Ca Movers, Washington Post It may be that Oom Paul lost confidenc (1n Webster Davis and decided to (rek afte | 1o not in the hands of his oritics, | but | the hearig from Vermont and Malue, | Aguinaldo is determined to wait for | performance in the big tent The Dal r and the Man, New York Tribune Mr. Bryan says that he places the man above the dollar. S0 ho proposes to make | the dollar so cheap that it would be hard for the cheapest sort of a man to get below it Saving Some Ammun Chicugo Nows Ior the benefit, as he eays, of “those re- publican papers which pitch fato me as if they thought this was their last chanoe,” | Mr. Bryan begs to inform them that he is| | & young man and in the course of nature | will be here for several years yot. The hint is opportune. Papers should not say all the bad things they can say about a candidate Ho may run agaln and it is not well to ex- haust the ammunition A Chnllenge to Kngineers. Phila phia Ledger | French engineers are challenging their American brethren to match the rapidity with which the underground road from Vincennes to the Bois de Boulogne 8 been bullt It 1s about ten miles long nd was put in operation sixteen months after ground was broken for it. That was quick work, but perhaps Mr. Yerkes will take up the gauntict when he starts his under- und road in London. Meanwhile the ericans content themselves with calling ntion to the way they are taking the bridge-bullding work of the world away from all competitors. Acrenge of Pablic Lands. Philadelphia Ledger. According to the general land office figures the new insular possessions of the Uunited States have added 97,900,000 acres to the area of the republic and of this area a con- siderablo proportion may be purchased in due time from the United States or acquired | under the federal homestead law Within the territory proper of the rtates and the | territories there vemain less than 570,000,000 acros of non-appropriated public land, most of which 1s unsuitable and worthless for ag- ricultural purposes. The Intending howe- | steader of the next century will be lkely to | find his pathway blocked everywhere except in the Philippines PERSONAL POINTERS, Sidney Grundy is one of the most pro- | | ductive of dramatic authors. In one year he has been known to prodmce flve plays | He begun to write at 24 and is now 62, | B. L. Winchell, the new president of the Fort Scott & Memphis ratlway, entered the employ of that company twenty years ago as @ clork In the passenger department The statement of Mrs. Bmma P. Ewing, of cooking school fame, that “the avernge| American man is a saint” may taket | with « few grains of allowance, even when | ‘Khu explains that her belief is due to the patient way in which the man nrm-mti badly cooked food | | Emperor Willlam of Germany has| iropped that famous curl to his moustache |and now wears it brushed stralght out | Whether this has any pnnection with the | future of China is not known, but the photographers are rejoicing that all the kalser's pletures will have to be taken over again | The Nevernod Press of Boone, Ia.. an- [ nounces the publieation of an edition de luxe of the Fitzgerald version of the Ru | baiyat of Omar Khayyam. There are | be only 260 coples—a squure octuvo with | wide margins, printed on the heaviest and | finest English had-made deckel-edge pu- per, with uncut edges, und !lluminated title page and initials, | Belief prevalls that the pathetic appeal of poor old Isabella of Spain that she be now permitted to return to the land from which she has been banished for twenty- three years will be granted. The old lady is now over 70 years old and sadly broken at last, after all ber gatety, fn health and spirit. Sne wants to die on her native soll | The bellet, prevalest and persistent, in Ireland that Charles Stewart Parnell is not dead and that he is now In Africa and none other than the Boer soldler who has been known to the world as Christian De Wet is one of the curiosities of modern | history. The thing 1s all explained by those who belleve it and the strong re semblance between Parnell and De Wet is pointed out. The will of the late Dr. Jacob M. La sta of Philadelphia contains bequests of $6,000 each to the Pennsylvania hospital, the Children's hospital fn Philadelphia, the College of Physicians and the University of Pennsylvania and $1,000 to the Sunday Breakfast association of that city. Dr Da Costa devised his medical museum to the Jefferson Medical college in Phila delphia and his medical library to the College of Physiclans. MONDY ORDER BUSINESS. Notable Effect of Prosperity in I al Division of the Postofice. Baltimore American. The Postoffice department reports that during the last fiscal year over 33,000,000 postoffice orders were issued In this couu- try. The average amount of these orders was $7.70, 80 that the business amounted to over $254,000,000. The increase over the previous year in the recelpts was $02,306,- 449, or over 14 per cent. This i the larg- est fncrease in receipts and in percentage that has ever been known in the postal service. Postofice orders aro an excellent index of prosperity and they are especially siguificant to the workingman, particularly it hie be a foreigner who has come (o thix country to better his conditfon. The fu crease in international postofice orders | has been very marked. Among the first! thing a foreigner, who has been successtul in this country, does 13 to send money back home n order to bring over his relntives Domocrats have talked considersble non- sense about the German element in this | | | | hey are made of silk, silk |from $4.00 to $6.50. | fool fects, in a great variety of patterns, wwed | on every occasion when a fancy vest may be worn. bine taste with utility, variety with economy. country ticket the most voting againat the republican The German-Americans are among prosperous people United Btates. They great of money the mother and induce t would be | in the deal their relativea It (his © was plenty The last adwinistration years for our ed cit and th ta eare to let their frionds fn the old country know it The laboring nin owes every thing to the republican party aud It ths democrate think he i« o0l enough to vo! to rob his pocket they will find out differ ently in a little over to ountry t m to the state, wpossible for them to do unless times worq good and th of employment for four everybody republican profitable years of have been newly natur very BREEZY Livks Indianapolis Journa older than she looks. How do you know “She says she remember water used to make yo ne Rebecea Jones | soda Chicago Post contributor, ‘' ke ‘e wwa the oditor insured.” “I have here fow burning ! Take excitedly wald thoukhis m away " eried bullding Detroit Free ought to lead Tenspot to & co “I don't see w “Don't you? Why, play.” Pross very otist “You happy musicl a e, an éven your is work Philadelphia Press: Mrs. Hrowne certuinly does Iive high. 10 seems his whole thought Is of his victuals Mra. Malaprop That s He's what yo. might call a regular ipecac hi Ho to me Pittsburg Chrontclo of cumpalgn Apewchis made Into a book,” said Mr & hookbinder well a spellbindery » @ oolle Northal¢ replied the latter; “this i Cloveland Plain Sothern's rend the soliloquics “I can’t blame him for that, 1t alwa seemed to me as I a man st feol ki to come toout in on and talk to himse Wil those Tsten ing down in ot They t Hamlet say that is weak in rig! f wit front 1k Brookiyn Life Satan, ‘that supnose you e you And you siy you really like ti fvok_at the smoke are i Chicago, 'h,” no,” “replind the arrival Chicago; "1 haven't noticed the Ita the population that you have inepires me remarked place! I and im Tate from wmoke here tha “There 1 man The hi JUr gave His lawyer told him he wou'd have to pay It as he was an unmarried man. He hustied out and fn a fow hours came bagh with a w plea fn due torm that h. needed his sn for the support of his family, He g frec L don’t he that wa aaid tho professor, ufter a fleetion, Wha not?" Beciuse 1t was a story who was gied for asc went against judgment for $ux Ve constitutional moment's re annex post facto, SONGS WE TRY TO SIvG. Baltimore Amer The songs we try to sing haunt us through The melodies that fude nway The songs that ¢ light br They'd hay swerlest we could only bring form the w thint HODES we try to sing n I'he songs that I and soft) me a-dreaming In the twl And thingne Ike whisper ‘The songs we try to sing! The It broight melodies That flutter 1to belng with the sighing of a breeze That stumble with a word or i8h with a 1 hrase The songs thut vnd in shadowed glints of fancy's mellow 1t we could only utt wou'd thrill and chords of richest we Lry to sing f heart. two, or va the strain In mony~—the song The songs we try to sing! sure and softly blend With words (hat auit the melody before reach the end The half-sung songs -the songs that come as sometlmes comes n drea Which lures us out upon the fingers white, that gleam And beckon us to struggle on, fore they bring words that give o songs we try (o sing The notes that we way with yet fade be The cheering to the The songs we try to sing! Carols ever sung— 11t and laugh a dence evor rang! If they could but complete themsolves, with shing form and wir, lodies world The sweetest They & the lightest ca oem to ever RWeetor far fashloning all the dreamy try to sing than any song of any Are Iyrics In the kongs we Three Cardinal Virtues in the Optical Business We attribute the success of our op- tical department to three things. A complete factory, intelligont ox amination and reasonabloness of price, and it s these threo essentlals we combine most pleasantly and success- tully. It your eyes are giving you any trouble, come 1. We'll examine them free of charge, and if you need glasses we'll furnish them at prices you are pleased to pay spectacles as low ug $1.00. J. C. Huteson & Co. Consulting Opticians 1520 Douglas Street - “VES-TWO.” Vestwo is a reversible fancy vest, double breasted on one |side, single on the reverse, with a different pattern on either side, | each in pleasant contrast to the other. and worsted, and Tattersall of- They are suitable for wear They com- We selr them Would be pleased to have you see the assortment. Browning, King & Co R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Omah Only Exclusive Clothiers fer Mcu and Beya