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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ROSEWATER, Editor - . - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | TERMS Ok Daily F fillly Bee and Sun lustrated 1 e, Of unday Bee, Ofie Year Baturday Bee, One Y Weekly Bee, Ono Year OFFICES. maha: The Bee Building outh Omaha® City Hall Bullding ty-Afth and N Btreets Councll Blufts. 10 Pear] Street Chicago: 1840 Unity Building. ew York. Temple Court ashington: 601 Fcurteenth Street Bloux Laty: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edl torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorfal Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances shou be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCE Remit by draft, expres 5 I{nh]n to The Bee Publishing ( nly 2-cent stamps accept=d in paym nt of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omah tern exchange ented TH SHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Dougias C‘ounty George B. Taschuck, secretary of The Hee Publishing Company, being duly swor yo that t ctual_pumber or fall and mplets coples of Daily, M. Tivening and Sunday Bee nrinted during the month of October, 1%6, was as follows 1 27,220 1. 27,450 2 18 3 1.. ‘ 2 27.670 5 28 500 28,450 6 27,060 28,7 1 27,110 28,790 8 ..27,410 20.0: 9 27,520 30,0 10 20,5530 1 0,450 12 g 1 ) 1 20,720 " 15 ..27.460 @ 16 27,570 Total Tess unsold and returned coples Net total sale 8TORTS | Net dally everage 28,002 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK Bubscribed {n my presence and sworn to before me this first day of November, A D, 1900, M. B_HUN (8eal.) Notary Public. E——————————————————— he weather will agnin be a favorite tople after Tuesday. For an infant less than two months old that auditorium fund is growing quite lusty. — e Republicans should not allow them- selves to be buncoed by side fssues or | decelved hy fukes. pp— Ex-Presldent Cleveland has gone duck hunting and as he pushed out into the wilderness he left no word of encourage- ment for the Bryanites, When a man decelves you once you are not to blame, but if you allow your- self to be decelved by him a second time you are a fit subject for the fool killer. — Bdgar Howard knows Ransom like a book and when e denounced Ransom as a tool of corporations and a disgrace to his own party he knew what he was talking about. After Tuesday the big heading type In the popocratic papers will have a temporary rest. It will not require let- ters an inch high to express tlhie feelings of the cditors. Keep it before the people that Edgar Howard, only three years ago, declared that Frank Ransom is a rogue not to be trusted with public Interests, and Edgar Howard then told the truth if he never told it before. If the fusionists thonght Nebraska were sure for Bryan does anyone imag fne they would Insist on having Mr. Bryan work himself out the day clection delivering speeches eve minutes in order to suve the state? —_— The railroads have wmade a one-fare rate for voters who wish to go home to vote., With this concession no person who appreclates the importance of the coming election should allow himself to be disfranchised by absence from his home on election day. ———— It there is any good reason why a workingman who was seeking employ ment In vain four years ago, but is now steadily employed at higher wages than ever before, should vote ngainst Presi | dent McKinley and a continuance of prosperity it has not yet been advanced. | | The men whom Governor Poynter has appointed to positions In state institu- tions may not be successful in managing the business of the state, but those whom he has allowed to remain can he depended on to use time paid for by the | state to further the interests of the man | who gave them thelr job E————— The official ballot In Douglas county will be made up in two columns, and every voter should see to it that he makes his cross marks opposite the names of the candidates for every office on the ticket. He must not stop at the | end of the first column, but see to ft | that no part of the ticket is overlooked. One of the judges of a Chicago court has struck the truth regard'ng the liti- gation between the Board of Trade and the so-called “bucket shops.” He says that the dealings in “bucket shops” and the “speculation’” on the Board of Trade are simply betting transactions, and, while he reserves his declsion as to the legal standing of the two classes, that morally they are on exactly the same level, E—— The warfare being waged on John W, Parish, republican candidate for county attorney, Is without warrant or excuse, He bas done nothing up to this time to Justify the charge that he lotends, if elected, to violate his oath of office, but on the contrary he has publicly pledged himself to do his duty without fear or | ing the | would, | #hould be | bouna agaivst the natlonal banks and also to | policy in| dealing with our new possessions. [ | eiting republ | istration. | dent. | and conduc REITERATED FALSEHOODS lle well stuck to Is as g truth” fs an adage which appears to govern the conduct of the eamyp the part of the Omaha World-He In its desperate effort to instigate publican bolt from the legislative ticket that brazen toged n on conscienceless fakir relterates its falsehoods concerning an al betrayal of the republican party on the part of Edward Rosewater dur last session of the It the charge that Rosewater left a signed pledge in 11 hands of Governor Poynter that he if elected United States sena free colnage in lected president in 1000, reasserts Edwar support case as the| treasure (1. | sacritice th | inte Bryan | ad | Rev, Cheesman Is making the as THE OMAHA DAIL bondsmen of the late defaulting city Most of these men have small homes | of thelr own, and surely they will not | ol wn and their neighbors merely to enable Frank Ran som to earn an enormous fee as an at- torney on the floor of the senate. — SAMPLE POPOCRATIC INFAM) The depths to which the popocratic | gistature, | campalgn managers have descended in | | their war re of slime and dirt have been hed by & man in religious garb who disgraces the clerical cloth. In the eches which he 1s delivering, under the pay of the popocratic committee, ertion | that iIn the same pledge Rosewater i that the 600 Red Cross nurses sent to the himself to support the W support Bryan's undigested All these charges Edward Rosewater to anyboc are absolutely false never made a pledge time to change his | views on the money question. On the contrary be positively declared to popu lsts and democrats by whom he was | approached that he was a republican and would stand by the principles of that party on the money question and every cardinal party tssue. In fact, the only declaration that he ever made dur- | ing the legislative session concerning | his position was embodied in the letter addressed to 1. I Memminger which was published in The Bee last week. The declarations made in that letter are well known as often repeated views publicly expressed in The Bee, but the brazen fakirs of campaign falschood will continue to reiterate what the know to be untrue in the hope of in-| ns to vote for democrats | pledged to elect two Unlted States sen ators who favor all the wild theories embodied in the populist and democratic | platforms. The thing that glves the fakirs awa however, is the statement that seventy- three republican candidates for the leg islature are already pledged to Thomp- | son and Rosewater, when everybody | knows that outside of Lancaster and | Douglas counties no issue has been mllllv] on senatorial candidates. These disreputable waye, however, at any tics cut both While they may influ-| ence some weak-kneed and weak-minded | republicans they must disgust thfught ful populists and democrats, and when | the votes are counted it will be found that this latter class far outnumbers the former. BRYANISM NUT DEMUCRACY. At the reception glven to Governor Roosevelt on his return to New York one of the speakers was Hon., Charles 8. Fairchild, who was secretary of the treasury In the first Cleveland admin- | In the course of his speech he said: “I have sat at the feet and by the side of all the men who have illumined the name of democracy dur- | lug the last fifty years. I think that 1| know the doctrines and teachings of all the great democrats from the begin ning until now, and, by the precept and examwple of each and all of them, 1| am compelled to do wy utmost to stand aguinst the preposterous ideas of the present democratic candidate for pre Not ounly does all of this tra- dition and example, as well as my po- litical training, but also my native sense, lead me to seek the defeat of the so-called democratic party in this elec tion.” Other distinguished democrats are with Mr. Fairchill in declaring that Bryanism is not dewocracy and in op. posing it as a greater danger to the country than any luvolved in our for elgn policy. Such men as John G. Car- lisle, Daniel Lamont, Don Dickinson, William L. Whitney and scor of others—men trafned in democratic prin- ciples and who have been among the ablest exponents of true democracy—are arrayed against Bryanlsm and are exert- ing their influence for its defeat. They have not remounced democratic prin- ciples, but revercucing the traditions of the party of Jefferson und Jackson and Lilden, they refuse to affillate with the political organization that stands for everything repugnant to true democ PLAYING HIS BUN ME. For sublime audacity commend us to Frank Ransom. While everybody who kuows anything about bis career as o legislator knows that he is always ready to sacrifice and sell out his constituents he poses as a champlon of the people | and especlally of the working classes. In the present campaign Ransom | great stress on the effort he made on behalf of the street railway motormen rs In securing the passage of the vestibule bill. He does not tell, however, that he would have dropped that bill on proper inducements just us readily as he did other bills in former | legislatures which affected corporations. Ransom’s proclivity to introduce bills in one house and arrange for their de- feat in the other is well known. Mem bers who served with him when the valued policy bill was passed have a dis tinet recollection how put through in one house and then la- bored to defeat it in the other, and how he was provoked and disappointed when he found he could not accomplish its de- feat. And yet Ransom now points with pride to the valued policy law and tells the people how he protected them from the Insurance trust. The bunce game he is now playing on the street railway employes is to pledge himself to put through the legislature a bill compelling the company to put on a rear vestibule to its cars. The ques tion is, Will the street eae employes cast their votes for a man of Ransom's repu tation? Will they vote for & man who was folsted on the fusion ticket by Bartley’s bondsmen for the purpose of compromising for a were song the claims favor. What more could be asked of bhim? What right has any wan or news- paper to impugn his motives or question his Integrity without something more of the state agalnst them, now amount- ing to over §750,0007 Will they vote to saddle upon Omaha and Douglas county taxpayers an additional tax burden of wubstantial than mere suspicion and a | fully $80,000 when Omaha alone lost deslie to bring lboui his defeat? $85,000 In the compromise with the | gence should at the opening of the twen- | | sald: be had the bill | Philippines to minister to the wants of | the sick and wounded are simply prosti- | tutes sent there to pander to the pas- | slons of the soldiers, and charges upon | the republican administration the per- | version of the hospital corps to this base end, fouler slander viler falsehood Las been uttered by any man, and the | insult should be rescnted by every per son who admires the patriotism and de- votion of the noble women who have volunteered out of the best households in the land and in vearly every com- munity to take up the cause of humanity in that faraway land. To stigmatize these self-sacriticing women under a name ruinous to their most sucred repu ! tation Is a woral crime that should not only call down upon its perpetrator swift and wmeet punishment, but also brand indelibly the candidates in whose interests such disgracetul and infamous campaigning Is waged, No or SCHOUOL BUARD POLITICS, Members of the Omaha Woman's club have ventured Into the field of polities in belalf of favored school board candi- dates who by one means or another hav managed to secure the endorsement of | its committee, Under the law of Nebraska women possessed of the prescribed qualifica- tions® have a right to vote for members of the school board, and in the exerc of this right they should certainly be free aud untrammeled, That In the se- lection of their preferred candidates, | however, the women who are looked to us typifying the most advanced iutelll tieth century seck to draw the color line | must excite the wonderment of all. There is no good reason why a m: should be barred from the Board of ration because his skin Is black, if he sess the necessary qualificatious to fill the position creditably. No one con- tends that the negro nominated on the republican school board ticket Is not competent and trustworthy, so that the only opposition to him must arise 1 cause of his color. | Colored children attend the public | schools, sitting side by side with children of white parents, and nv harm can come from having an intelligent colored man of unimpeachable reputation sitting on the school board alongside of white members, We do not belleve It is creditable to the c¢lub women of Omaha to take it upon themselves to ruise this question at this time without provocation or valid excuse, CROKER COUNSELS VIOLENCE. The republican national committee has deemed it necessary to take notice of the following utterance of Richard Croker: “I advise all democrats to go to the polling places on election night, count mnoses and see that they get counted, If the vote doesn't tally, let them go in and pull out the fellows in charge.” This counsel to violence has been endorsed and approved by Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic na- tional committee. ‘The republican national committee an- nounces that measures have been taken to insure the protection of the rights of every voter In the pending election and that the votes shall be properly counted and recorded as cast. It also admon- ishes the voters of New York that they must not be deterred by these threats from exercising the right of suffrage on next Tuesday. Referring to this Inclte- ment to violence Governor Roosevelt “Such advice is a fitting sequence to the way in which the members of his party have for the last six weeks been conducting their campaign, It is fitting and natural when mobs are encouraged k up peaceable political meeings, intefere with the right of free | speech and of free discussion on the platform of the lssues before the people, that there should follow advice from the recoguized leaders of the party guilty of such conduct calculated to overthrow the verdict of the people when It shall ‘h«- glven” Governor Roosevelt declared | that every power of the state will be used to see that on next Tuesday each man in the state shall cast hls vote as Le pleases und shall bave it counted us cast. We have in this counsel of Croker's not only a striking exempiitication of the character of Tawmany, but also an il- lustration of the spirit of Bryanism, Violence and fraud and corruption have always been the means by which Tam- many won its victorles and the man who | I8 now the leader and “prophet” of that political organization is stmply following its traditional policy. Bryanism teaches disrespect for law, Incites popular pas- slons, appeals to discoutent, all of which tends to violence, There is, therefore, a perfect atfinity between Tammanyism and Bryanism, an entirely natural rela- tlonship. This watter is of interest and Impor- tance not alone to the people of New York, but to citizens everywhere who re- spect law and who belleve that the se- curity of our Institutions depends upon a free and hovest ballot. Richard Croker has become the leader of the Bryanite campalgn. He is the most conspicuous figure in it next to the can- didate. He bas raised the money for carrying on the fight In New York, em- ploylng the usual Tammany methods of to | This is hardly the b Y BEE: SATURDAY, and managed the public demoustrations on Mr. Bryan's visits to the metropolis and was constantly by the side of the andidate. He has not only been recog nized us one of the leaders of the party by Mr. Bryan, but has been luuded by him, “C is its proplet.” Every citizen should seriously ask Limself what may re ably be it this alliance of weted Bryanism and Crokerism should be suc cesstul, What security would there be for peace and order, for the fair and Just administration of the law, good government, with such a combina- tion conducting the It has been known all along that the popocrats were having a great portion of thelr campalgn work of a clerical na- ture In Nebraska done by clerks draw- ing pay from the state for doing the work of the publie, but it now develops that they are even getting thelr printing done at of the state institutions, wid of reform the people of the state have a right to ex pect from people who make such large pretensions, but s no surprise to those who have kept posted on the dofngs of the “reformers,” one No one thing Is a better illustration of the general prosperity prevailing than the character of the buildings Dbeing erected fn Omaba at present. During democratic times there was no demand for more buildings for business purposes and the few structures erected were for the most part palatial residences for people of weans, who took advantage of the low price of material and labor to build cheaply. The structures now go ing up are for business purposes and residences for people of moderate means, Storles of eruelty and wanton killing of Chin by the European soldiery again finding their way into print. These lutest reports come from lett written home by privates in man army After making due allow ance for exaggerations, it is evident that the course of the military com manders is such to Intensiry natural antipathy of the Chinese to the foreigners and is too apt to | further troubles in the future, duce Omaba s g adually getting what is its due in the matter of railroad rates b, the rewoval of discriminations which have been a barrier in the past. All that ix needed to secure the correction of the inequalities which remain is to stand together and never let up until Justice is secured. An important step was made when the unfalr differential to the south was abolished and the qualizing of rates to the north and northwest will open up still wore terri- tory. The democrats bave the proclamation habit in its advanced stages. The chalrman of the Towa central committee has Issued one in which Le warns party followers much after the manner of Croker and Jones, en if lowa re- publicans were the kind of people who would resort to crooked methods, it is so needless in that state that the warn- ing really sounds humorous. Towa democracy will not come within 75,000 votes of carrying the state. Every candidate on the legislative ticket is pledged to favor fra ternal insurance with such legislation as Is necessary to encourage the growth of these organizations and protect their policy holders. Every member of a fra ternal Insurance soclety should bear this in mind when he comes to mark ballot. his Overworked Alarms, Washington Post Somehow or other the friends of the Lie- claration of Independence don't become ex- clted every time Mr. Bryan turns In an alarm. Some Dust from Nome, Buffalo Express. It 18 estimated that before the season closes $5,000,000 in gold will bave been fur- nished by Cape Nome. This s consider- ably under the predictions made by the euthusiastic and far abovo those mads by the disgruntied. It is & very satistactory average, howe: Mentul Activity in Chicago. Chicago Chronicle. Optimists firmly maintain that the human raco is growing (o mental vigor and ntelli- gence, but we cannot forget that about one- half the female population of this town is practicing the “kangaroo walk' and the same proportion of the men gets out of bed before daylight to read the results of the foot ball games, These things couse us to hesitate at an acceptance of the optimistic dictum. — Guard Well Your Suvings, Philadelphla Ledger, The number of depusitors In the sav banks of the Unfted States is now gre by 832,607 than It was In 18065, Granting that the majority of these are women, which 18 probably the case, there still re- maln enough more men who bave sowe- thing to lose by the election of Bryan than there wers In the former year to make his defeat more assured than it was them from this cause alone. ——— tor ceful and Husy, adelphia Record. Under an executive order Cuba has been consolidated into a single wilitary depart- ment, with General Wood in full control. From Sautlago to Puerto Principe the {slanders are busily engaged in attending to their own affairs, with no thought of re- volt or disorder. Cuba 18 pacified, sure enough, and the slender federal parrison of the island might be still further re- duced, beyond all question, without danger to any public or private interest involved de. American Export ' Kansas City Star. The tremendous growth of America’s ex- port trade during the last throe years Las caused the German Central Bureau of Com- merclal Treaties to investigate fndustrial conditions in the United States. The presi- dent of the bureau has just issued a book on the subject, in which he recognizes the United States as Germany's greatest com- mercial rival. The sudden expansion of the forelgn commerce of this country has shown other nations that they must make every effort if they are even to delay the coming of the commercial supremacy of the United States It Is interestiug to note that this German authority—in common with several British—praises the cousular service of the United States, often the subject of severe criticism at extortion and blackmail, &le¢ arranged | bome, NOVEMBE at is Tammany, and Croker and for affairs of the nation? the | republican | which is so R 3, 1900. sssesccs Besscsscce of United States tion to instruct thelr son of preference In proof of my sl | official ballot at the coming e terest of the American people. which the earnings of the and depression. postal facilitics to the people. [§ regulated and controlled by prope fs a suffict S e S S | | The Omaha Bee publishes figures show- ing how the farmers of Nebraska have prospered under a “robber tariff,”" and de spite the “devastation of trusts’ and the “iniquitous gold standard.” Nebraska's production of wheat, corn, oats and rye for 1900 is now known. The Bee bas taken the average prices pald for 50 cereals In 1896 and 1900 by the Omaba | Elevator company. That concern buys grain in all parts of the state, and the | prices it pays, therefore, accurately repre- scent the average value of Nebraska's cereals at the rallway station nearest the farms on which they are grown Nebraska harvested this year 39,701,625 buskels of wheat, and the average price | was 58 cents, making the crop worth to its | growers $28 148.30. In 1898 the average | price wa . and the crop of 1900 would bave brought then only $13,595, Thus their wheat this year brought Ne- braska farmers $9,131,376.05 more than an equal crop in is95 would have brought them. ebraska raised this year 241,925,527 | buskels of corn, and the average price was 30 cents, making the crop worth to the growers $72,80,608.10. In 1895, with corn averaging 14 cents, the same crop would have brought only $33,870,975.78, showing a galn for Nebraska farmers this year of $38,709,684.92, Nebraska reaped this year 45,755,422 bush- els of oats, and at 18 cents a bushel got $8,781,375.96 for them. In 1506 an equal crop at 10 cents a bushel would have To the Voters of Nebraska: For more than a quarter of a century 1 have advocated the election snators by direct vote of the people. secure this right for the people by amendment of the constitution of the United States, however, have failed up to this time. proach to popular selection of United States senators has been made I this state, where the people have a representatives in the ballot box. erity us an advocate of the direct popular election of senators 1 have appealed for an under the constitutional provision by having my name placed on the tion. tlons of the republican party in its natlonal platform, 1 am committed also to certain reforms which in my judgment are demanded in the in- I am in favor of the establishment of postal savings people will be safely guarded through panic 1 am In favor of the postal telegraph and the widest extension of I belleve that corporations are creatures of the state and should be the state. sion of corporations, I am by no means in favor of confiscating thelr y, elther by prescribing ruinous rates or excessive taxation, other words, I favor such legislation as will protect the people agalnst extortion and discrimination by corporate monopolies, but at the same time am opposed to any legislation that would prevent them from earn- Ing falr interest on honest Investment. My career in Nebraska, which covers a period of thirty-seven years, nt guaranty that if elected to the United States senate 1 shall labor with all my ability and energy to promote the welfare and material prosperity of the state and nation and shall always hold my- self accessible to every cltizen of Nebraska who has a clalm upon my services or time, no matter how humble or poor. R e STV | A $52,000,000 Argument Chicago Inter Ocean. All efforts to The near ap under the state constitu- the legislature by an expres right expression of public sentiment While standing upon the declara banks In While I favor public supervi In E. ROSEWATER. brought only $4,57 than was recelved this year. braska's 3 brought $509,801.71 more than would a) crop at the 1896 price of 16 cents And Ne an Adding these galns together we find that Nebraska farmers this year recelve $52,- 55,695.84 more for their cereals than they ’ ‘ . . { . . ‘ ; . ‘ + . . ‘ . . ‘ ‘ . b3 i . + . ’ . 20—$3,902,833.76 less 520,877 bushels of rye at 3v cents | 4 addition to sending him away trom the #chool 1o a regiment in the provinces. Ha Ikewlse sent six other officers back to the egiments. Of course the affair bas i ¥ICAL #1ir. The Natioualist and antl-Se journals are wttacking General Auvdre w great bitterness, and tho defence of other quarters is only halt-hearted. An Kng lish correspondent, commenting upon the situation, remarks that it is plain the elther Jewish officers must be folorated o that all professors of the Jewish faith it Frauce must be excused from milita y " vice POLITICAL DRIFT. Senator McMillan puts the republican plurality in Michigan at 76,000 The country is willing to concede the record for shoutlug to HRryan withoy turther effort on his part Tho political eltuation in Kansas he reached a critfcal stage thelr whiskers on the result Voters n Rhode Island will pass upon nstitutional amendment changing the time holding state elections from April t November. When Wobster Davie reached Mountain Grove, Mo, a fow days ako he found the town papered with this impertinent ques tion: “Who &hot the bat?" Galen A. Carter of Stamford, Conn, fo years a member of (he democratic state central committea nnd generally a delegate to natlonal conventions, has come out for McKlnley, John P. Altgeld of Illinois, who is cam palgning for Bryantsm in Nebraska, will confer a favor on the home guard by answer- Ing this question, propounded by the Chicago Chronicle, a democratie paper: “How many democratic candidates is John I Altgeld knifing this year?" Thero are thirty-five wards in the city of Chicago avd in tweniy-six of them the reglstration this year s larger thup it was four years ago. In uine wards it has fallen off. One of theso s the Twenty-third, in which the decline 1s from 5,400 to 7,800, It v the strongest Swedish ward iu the city At the New York City republican head quarters it has been officially announced that {any demoerat who wished to bet on the rc | sult of the election in Kings county weuld | be accommodated in any amount at odds of 10 to § on McKinley. Chairman Dady of the campaigy committes sald he had $10,000 to bet at those odds. The fight In the Fourteenth Congressio aistrict 18 the oniy contest In New York Meu are bettin [ City in which the currency question 18 not would have recelved for an equal crop &l an fasue. The democratic candidate, John the prices of 1566, It will be observed |Sprunt Hill, has declared himself In favor that this comparison eliminates the fluc- |of gound money. In 1808 Willlam Astor tua‘lons of seasons. parison of prices and the consequent re celpts of Nebraska farmers from cqually good crop fn 1596 and 1900. 603,605.84. Why are Nebraska farmers so better off now than in 18967 at work in the mills, and thus in the domestic demand for their grain. forcign sales of cereals, great as they are, o s compared with our domestic consump- tion, are really trifiing. Republican poli- cies increased our power of domestic con- Hence prices rose, and the Ne« sumption. braska farmers have reaped the benefit. Nebri more than fifty-two million reason: voting agalnst Bryan. the west have as wany more. AN OUH OTHER LANDS ' It is the general opialon in contiuental aiplomatic circles that while the Chinese crisls lasts none of the great powers will attend to the affairs of Crete, the Balkaus or Morocco, and that France ls therefore In & position to continue and complete the absorption of the Algerian-Moroccan hinterland in spite of all protests made by the Tungler government. In the meantime, however, several Vi- enna papers have published reports from Rome asserting the existence there of great excitement regarding Morocco aud | the certainty of Italy occupying Tripoll before long. The Italian press itself, how- ever, does Ny bear out either of these al- legations and it is semi-officially stated in Rome that as long as the status quo in t - Meditarranean is not menaced by any o'hier ) wer th ‘e need be no fear of Italy disturbing it The sultan ot Morocco has repeated his protests against French action in the Tuat reglon, by which, in his opinion, the treaty of 1845 is violated, but up to the present time be has received no answer from any side and the demand of Sid Hadji Ma- homed el Torres, the commissioner for for- elgn affairs at Tangier, that an lnterna- tional conference should sit on the ques- tion of French encroachment into Mo- rocco territory has not met with any re- sponse. It will be recalled that by the convention of 188 the powers recognized the hinterland as being within the area of French i1 fluence. According to the latest reports from France the coal crisis in that country is rapldly approaching the acute stage. The rise in price is already considerable and, with the winter close at hand, the outlook is serious. One of the railway companies has been forced to order §0,000 tons from Awmerica in order to replenish the reserve stock, which had become so low that ouly elghteen days' supply was available. In the event of a mobilization of troops it would have been fmpossible, it 18 sald, to have found fuel for the number of trains required. The Northern Railway company has also been compelled to fmport coal and it is sald to have lost 4,000,000 frans by the rise in pri But rallroads are not the only sufferers. Laundries, wash- houses end baths are in an especlally bad way on mccount of the great Increase in It working expenses, is feared that a great number of these establishments will huve to close, throwing hundreds of per- sons out of employment on the threshold of winter. The attention of the Paris mu- uicipal council has been directed to this important question and certain members have suggested the abolition of octrol dues on coal. What with duty, ectrof dues and the freight, coal in Paris s dearer at least by 80 francs tham at the pit's mouth, If the octrol duty, which Is very heavy, corld be removed or reduced, even temporarily, the relief to the great mase of poorer consumers would be great. e Perhaps China is not #o far behind us fn its Industrial development after all. An account is published of a cotton fac- tory owned by Li Hung Chang, Sheng and other Chinamen, with a capital of 2,000,000 taels. This mill would be enormous In the United States: \ts bulldings are sald to cover sixty acres, its employes to pum- ber 6,000 and Its product to be 1,000 pleces of cloth and 50,000 pounds of cotton yurn every twenty-four hours. The factory Is run day and night, each shift of workmen working eleven hours and a half. The mill bas fifty looms aud 90,000 spindles and is as “up-to-date as auy Massachusetts fac- tory.” The cotton used in this mill 1s grown in China. At present there are in operation in China 378,000 spindles, with the prospect that many more will be set run- wing in the immedlate future. The fac- tory girla earn the equivalent in our money of about 14 cents per day. The account warns Americans that they musy study lthe market if they are golng to ‘ompete successtully with the Chinese and Japanese cotton factorles, as the people have pe- cotton ex- porter sent over a lot of bandkerchiefs with the Chinese character for good luck culfar tastes. An American stamped In the corner. greatly nese have a geod-luck character, which was put to u disgraceful use. p . These did not sell they incident at the Fontainebleau Ecole d'Appli- cation. Captain Coblentz, an artillery oft- northern garrison, exchanging with an !n structor in the echool who bad finished turn of service. Captain Coblentz 18 a Jew. Upon his arrival at Fontalnebleau he le cards on his new comrades, but his were not returned, and one of the officers, press to the minister of war the feeliogs the other officers who had declded to ad such &n attitude towards the newcomer as | would make his position intolerable. In view | of this General Andre punished Major Duval | de Graville with fifteen days' imprisonment | 1 It 18 simply a com- an And | this perfectly fair comparison shows that Nebraska farmers are better off this year than they would have been with an equal crop in 1896 by the enormous sum of $32,- much | Because re- | publican policles assured stability of the | currency, made investments safe, set men ed | Our ka farmers have solld reasons, for And most states in to his chagrin—because the Chl- certaln reverence for thelr thought The anti-Semitic prejudice still rages in the French army, and has just been the cause of a most disagreeabls and eignificant cer, was recently transterred thither from a 18 | alls Major Duval de Graville, undertook to ex- “banler cnrried the district with a majority of more than 6,000 votes, The October town elections in Conpectiout were, as the completed and corrected rv turns show, gemerally favorable to the re publicans, who clected a clear majority of the minor officers balloted for and increased thefr total vote 2,500 beyond the republican vote of & year ago. Connecticut is no longer a doubtful, but is now a etrong republican state. Belated returns from the August election in Alabama have made their appearance. On the basis of the vote for commissoner of agriculture taey show 105,420 for the demo cratie candidate and 21,625 for the popullst | nominee, two putside tickets, one republican and one prohibition, polling together 16,300 votes. The voie for governor in Al will not be officially canvassed until the legtstagure meots in November. — Printed Page B Soon begins to “blur” when you reud at night, you have one of the flrst symptoms of failing eyesight. od glasses are needed at once to correct the failure. If you mne- glect 1t, strong lenses will be nec- essary after a while, Come to Optical Headquarters and got good glasses. Prices as low $1.00. Anchor Guard Frame for mnose glasses—can't shake ‘em off. J. C. Huteson & Co. 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