Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1900, Page 4

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Personal che Omaha or Eastern exchang THE BEE PUBLISHI STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nobrasks, Douglas County, s @ George 1} Taschiick, secretary of T Yublishing Company, being duly eays that the actual number of complote © of The D Evening apd Sunday Eee print month of November, 190, was 1 30,470 18, 2 24,905 11 21,010 18 28,040 19 81,820 2 _az010 65,420 ... 41,260 _mate 20,760 28,460 29,200 25,540 28,650 28,650 RS T IMPANY G i during the an follows 24,350 25,200 | 25100 | am,3%0 25,370 | 28,410 | 27,970 ~27,620 | 24,220 24,410 27,060 | 27,620 | 27,740 | 1. 12 12 " 15 F3 » Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales 013,421 Net daily average, 4 30,447 | GEO. B. TZSCHUCK presence and sworn to y of December. A, D., M. B_HUNGATE Notary Pub Bubscribed In my before me this ist da 1900, | That Chinese note Is hardl of Christmas present our Chine appreclate the kind » friends | iy | Govertrelect Dietrich is entitled to | be permitted to spend his holidays in peaceful seclusion from the place-hunt ers. | The most satisfactory Christmas always enjoyed by those who feel that | they have made the Christmias of others more enjoyable. is Nebraska's state was | fram ago tury pand. constitution 1 and adopted twenty-five yoars Nebruska needs a twentieth cen onstitution to give it room to ex —_— There seem to be plenty of players willing to take a hand In the Nebraska senatorial game, but most of them are sadly shy on the ante necessary under the rules. Speaker Clark of the last legislature | gays the speakership can be easily filled | by any wideawake legislator. Now for several additions to the st of avowed speakership aspirants, Commissioner General Peck publicly | expresses satisfaction with the showing made by the United States at the Paris exposition. 1t anyone should he satis- | fed Mr. Peck certainly should be. The industriul commission in its gearch for light on the trust question | has taken up the plate glass combin If this does not furnish the necessary | tllumination the match trust should be tackled next. On the principle of locking the stable door after the horse is stolen the Ne braska criminal code wilt be engrafted with a severe law against Kidnaping at the coming legislative session without | a dissenting vots Trust-smasher Smyth Is indeed in sad | plight. He s on the eve of his exit | from oftice, only to find that all the splinters he has kpocked off of the trusts in his four years' joust with the octopl can be casily carried around in his own little hat. Because they fell down so lamentably on the news of the Cudahy kidnaping the local newspaper fakeries are turning on Chief Donabue and leading an at tack upon him to divert attention from their own imbecility. It Is the same old cuttlefish game. The county poor farm and hospital are costing the taxpayers of Douglas county altogether too much money. 1f any changes are made In the manage ment they should be with the design to reduce the overgrown expense account | the people are footing. | Omaha's bank clearings for the week are $6,316,357. While the figures show but a slight gain over the corresponding | period for 1809, they still emphusize the fact that Omaha ranks higher as a com mercial center than any other American city of equal population. The trustees of the State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in thelr report to the governor cover themselves over with boquets and floral offerings for the fine progress made by the institution under their care. They go on the theory that if they do not pay the compli ments nobody else will, Fort Dodge, Ia, Is to congratu lated on its promised Christmas present In the shape of a new public library bullding to be donated by Andrew Car- negle. Fort Dodge is a thriving, pros- perous city of decided culture and Mr, Oarnegle need have no fears that his generosity may not be properly appre- clated. Popocrats scout the idea that a repub- lcan congress will ever abolish the slpecure Missourl river commissioner- ships. Congress has none the best of the popocratic combination in Nebraska, which has caretully protected those sinecure state railroad commissioner- shipe as long as they were occupied by wembers of the faithrul, . | or tllegal either aided | for MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, The republican attorneys for Frank Rausom and his fusionist assoclutes who hold certificates of election to the le lature thrc the frauds petrated ith struck a terrible mare's ne A% an offse the damaging testimony that proves be yond doubt the padding of the tion lists, the operation of the chain the of repeaters, batch sample ballots been troduced as one of the cxhibits to show that Ldward Rosewater bad traded o the national and state fickets the leglslative ticket These sample ballots speak for them selves and afford the proof that much ado 1s made out of nothing. There was 1o de n attempted on the voters and no possibility of republican votes golng to any eratic candi dute by reason of these hallots, All them were beaded in large, black ters: “Independent Democratic Sam Ballot.” Th desigued and cirrulated exclusively for the use of democrats who were determined to sup- Bryan, but dissatisfied with the nontiners their legislative state tickets These marked b den el posite the €rnor, sou election O 1gh stra endless a in and voting best It 'y Were sample ballots variously the names of the Some were low tors. had crosses op- of Dietrich for gov opposite the name of Mer- © for congress, some opposite the name of Parish for county attorney, while ail had names of r the legislatty object was to dewocrats willing the on crosses opposite publican candidates ticket. The manitest place in the bands ¢ t vote for part of the republican ticket sample ballots warked in accordunce with their disposition | It was a matter of notoriety that a great deal of dissatisfaction prevailed | among South democrats with the fusion legislative ticket, againss | which th | been an open revolt | after the high-handed jugglery practiced at the threeriuged conventions. There was also decided objection among Bouth Owmauha democrats to Governor Poynter and County Attorney Shiclds, of which | these sumple ballots were designed to tuke advanutage There wus ubs Omahia slutely nothing improper in the priuting or the circulating of these sumple ballots with the heading, “Independent Democratie Sumple Bullows;” they could not have | been used W sell out or trade off any republican candidate and the renegade republicans who joined in with the | usionists to defeat the republican ticket cun find in them no comtort or pallia tion of their treachery ther can those South Omaha republicans who and abetted the conspiracy to elect Frauk Ransom and his fusion as soclutes exonerate (heir criminal con duct by hiding bebind democratic sam ple ballots, REVULT UF THE CAPE DUTCH. How serious the revolt of the Dutch in Cape Colony is caunot be learned from the disputehes, but the fact thy the British government 18 not moking public the information it is thought to have regarding the situation warrants the Inference that the revolt is of a | ery grave churacter. Ever since the beginning of the war the Dutch of Cape | Colony have manifested a most earnest sympathy with the Boers and have fur nished many recruits to the forces ot the latter. It is not to be doubted that the invasion of Cape Colony by the Boers was instigated by their sympa thizers there and was undertaken upon assurances of assistance. It Iy hardly conceivable that otherwise the Boers would have ventured into this British territory. The uprising presents a fresh compli cation which it is easy to believe causes the British government uo little anxiety, for should it become general, | as I8 quite possible if not indeed prob able, it would subject England’s mili- tury resources to as severe i sirain as they buve yet experienced. Lord Kitch has cailed upon the government relnforcements the number of 80,000 and it s sald that the govern- | mwent cannot now supply one-fifth that force. A general revolt the Cape Dutch would require an addition to the | British arwmy in South Africa of per haps at least 50,000 men. The situa ton may not be so serious as the re- ports Indicated, but there is manifestly enough of danger in it to justity British | anxlety. ener has to —— TURNING THE NEW LEAF. The simultaneous advent of the new year and the new century should give | more than the usual impetus to Omaha's enterprise than is usual with the annual turning of a new leaf. It should be a| turning point in every department of public and private activity, spurring on public spirit and private initiative to work for the future of city and state with a vim and vigor surpassing th which has already accomplished so much in the past In our public institutions the aim must be efficient and progressive sepvice on an economical yet not parsimonious plane. The work public improve ments is well started, but by no means approached to complete while the uatural growth of the city requires the extension and expansion of the various strect improvements to keep pace with growing population demands. Our pa system is to be further developed, our schools kept up to date and the onward march maintained in all branches of public service, In the field of indugtry pre-cmpted for Individual or llective initiative the turning of the new leaf o up op portunities no less than those already selzed und exploited. With constantly lmproving rallroad facilities aud en larging trade territory our commerclal interests cau be widened, our manufac- turing establishments multiplied and our retail business swelled to supply the demands of a steadily increasing la ing class that forms the founda stone for every prosperous community. The turning of the new leaf s equally | lmportant for the social, educational and | religious life of the people. The | churches in the new century promise | 1 | tood | power to muintain a permanent lega VAL o even more Ifare than wocleties, vital factors in hitherto, while unions aml the the | fra public clubs, ternal w or nfzat ¢ iritable t onal through co-opera only begun to for soclal advy larly true of com and prosperity dominant With the turning 1 should experience a quickening in every tiber of the soclal body « tective objec wembers have X real influence ewent. This i« particu unities Omaha terial like sther weste in wotiy 1 clties, beginning where t of the new WOULD EXCLUDE The German a report fr Brewen, are looks to the wheat from been OUR WHEAT agrarians, according American consul at policy which of American mar I3 leg: propos a W g ex the lusion German unsuccesstul in ot securing islation probibiting, in effect, the impor s of America wents, th agrarian party is now exerting its influ ence to heavily increase the import du ties on all grains entering the empire. notably on wheat, and the presses the opiuion that the proposed law will be passed by the Reichstag He says the aim of the agrarians o make Germany entirely independent of ull countrics for its breadstuffs and supplies and remarks that it ditticult to how the proposed na tional legislation have any other effect in the long run than to enhance the price of the daily bread of the pec ple. "It is fwpossible to understand,’ | he adds the proposed duty can increase the crops of wheat throughout Germany or decrease the appetite of the rman people.” Of course it can do nelither aud for that very practical rea son it seews most improbable that the government will place a duty of 40 or 50 cents a bushel on whent, which would be well-nigh prohibitive, It would be a rather dangerous thing for the government, under existing con- | ditions, to adopt a policy which would | materially enhance the price of bread, | for the industrial situation in Germany | 18 not such as will admit of any increase in the wages of labor. Th o | question that German agricultural in- terests are suffering, but to seek a rem- edy for this in a policy thut would wake subsistence for the masses of the | people harder could not fail to encounter | most vigorous popular resentment and | protest. If the duty on grain proposed | by the agrarians should be adopted the | Awerican wheat growers of would feel the effect of it, but not so seriously us the German cousurers, ion n canned consul ex is see “lhiow is urse THE DEMANDS ON CHI. The powers have finaily agreed upon the demands on Chia. The most im- portant of them are the punishment of | those responsible for the anti-foreign | uprising, maintenance of the interdic tlon against the importation of arms aud of materials for the manufacture of arms and awmunition, equitable in demnity for all who have suffered in | person or property from the uprising, the payment of such indemnities to be guaranteed by financial measures ac- ceptable to the powers, the right of each A tion guard, forts that might obstruct free communication between Pekin and the sea to be destroyed, the right of military occupution of cectain points to be determined in order to maintain open communication between the capital and the ses, membership in any anti- foreign soclety to be perpetually pro- hibited under penalty of death, China to negotiate additions to commercial and navigation treaties with the powers and also to reform the department of foreign affairs. It is also required that the Chinese government shall send an extraordinary mission to Berlin to ex press regret for the murder of the Ger. wan minister and 4 commemo rative monument on the spot of his as- sassivatiou. Honorable reparation must be wade for the murder of the rep of Japan and an expiatory wonument erected in every foreign or international cemetery which has been desecrated, or in which the graves have been destroyed. Until these terms are complied with the general forces of the powers way remain at Pekin and in the provinces of China. There is said to be some feeling of resentment on the part of the Chinese regarding the provision for occupation pending compliance with the conditions, but while it is to be expected that mod- itications will be asked it 18 probable | the werms will be accepted, since | powers bave declared them to be ir revocable. It is safe to conclude, there- [ . that there will be little lllrtllvrl deluy in opening negotiations for a final | settlement. sentutive [ Our amiable suall pace contemporaries have finally come to the conclusion that Mr. Cudahy's son did not abduct him self and that the $25,000 ransom was no | pipe-dream myth, They may be ex- pected to come out in a day or two, bowever, with a duly verified theory | that the audacious cutprit is noue other thun our old fawiliar friend, Santa Claus, who wus sald to have been seen several times of lute prowling around the Cudahy mansion, A prominent British wmilitary critle admits that as an institution for mili- | tary education West Poiut academy is | far abead of anything in the line of | tralning available for British army of- | ficers, This compliment is reinforced | by the results achicved by the Ameri- | can army in producing able wmilitar leaders, A few graduates of \\'luht; Point might do a g wat deal to relieve the situation of the British forces in South Afri Frank Ransom insists that he knows of no election frauds in South Omaha, because if there had been he would have | been b on them. Ransom's record in| the legislature with reference to various Jobs und schemes forcible con- firmation of the conclusion The Tammany disteict attorney of | New York City, deposed by Governor | Roosevelt, will be careful in the future | not to run up against a buzzsaw, gives | military men Is such [ bold, { ot travel fast enough LY BEE: MONDAY, DI rer months castern greatly disturbed les Douglas coun del pledged to Rasewater, should refuse to go inte a republican caucus for the nomin tion of two senators. Rosewater that matter at rest by stating that he favor of the ca and it has been derstocd and unquestioned that the Doug Ias county members would participate What is sauce for the €00 ight to be sauce for the gander. If a caucus good thing and of so great | Rosewater should be asked (o sition regarding it before the it strikes the casual observer thing for the gentlemen who are opposcd to Rosewater and for the candidates wh are arrayed against him. The threat to stay out of caucus while there l& a probability that Rosewater might win, through bination with any other strong candidate is not very good polltics, and If it is car- ried into effect when the contest comes on the parties engaged in it will hear some- thing from their constituents that will not be pleasant to the ear What the republicans it repub mber. that rightly the fow a n ago an of the were ation, who a as in a Is a portance that atate his po then good tion of Nebraska are CEMBER interested fight, an anti-Th f the politicians date, Taking th t be ther will 1 capably of A decl heat o te want be set desire this business of the properly and witho long drawn-out the lasting iry int stall led They f le protracted bad blood geverally an The caucus is the ness of the party tiously. Every he is matter and the publ wy \gainst 1900, atter apable for the s an son fight john 1 fear t erved b republica i be ver the sit the senat dily iret in gislature at the atorial nd o may str plac duces high tens enmities to the par pla properly man has a show lacking in strength that is not concerned be- cause he does not develop more. e air g om enate or er. hat 1 proceed | uggl e be and and 1 nt They lay an anti- Rosewat a figh any other can. Crounse or Cure n rally ked up n. What b the distractions of a They ause n o to settle the busi exped!- re. his own 1t is fair | to presume thut those who have the largest following among th ielature stand in si lates to public senti good enough for K other candidate other candidates And, e m mila ment Rosewater. indeed [ or mbers of the leg- proportion as ri 1t th aucus is for any it is good enough for all | the person | ssible. | SHARTS ™ PRESS rrow STATE Norr of the quite tim gentle: been nted There bein and Island Independen arney, a leading light bar and | gressman Greene's ur an wh maj, | can leputy at obje s unanim ne ntment York Tim | Bro rted that Norris e deputy attorn Prout. We belleve Mr. Brown « gentleman of un been tive " worker re of Kearney [ under Mr a and th appoln | Fr clares to v Dietrich de for the thousand plicant sitions in thi this saying who no of have ilism in the j bave just political for the the r e the icing s re publican party people will o and de Norfolk News: The tering a reward for th ed for its ann on New Year. gests “Flowers of P Now what s the Election has been more and it shows vive World-Herald s of- name ibscriber sug and Prosperity “rubbing it in for a month very poor grace to re such suggestive phrases. There a sting of ingratitude hidden in the Worl Herald's “Flowers of Peace and Pros I review One use of over 0 who stays out of caucus for the reason | PCTItY named is pessibly y own very serious di aving the scomfiture. way for his | Smooth Finish for the Century. Globe-Democrat In round numbers the republican plurality in the popular vote is §:3,000 and it breaks the record of all national elections in that respect by 90,000 votes. A Political Curlosity. Indianapolis Press J. “Ham" Lewis is going to tell us the Omaba banquet what he thinks about democratic reorganization. The clief news ,1, | teature of this item lies in the announce- | ment that Mr. Lewis thinks. Where, Oh, Wheret New York Tribune. the way, where are they who so etoutly contended that ninety-nine years were 100 years and that, thercfore, the twentieth century began with the nineteen hundredth year? We understand that even In Germany it is not lese majeste to speak of the present year as the last of the pres- ent century. By Where Reform in Needed. Minneapolls Tribune Whatever may be the verdict of the in- vestigating committee in reference to the Booz hazing, the incident will probably lead to the total abolition of this reprehensible practice at West Point. When the army authorities realize what trouble a case of this kind is likely to cause them and that one or two more might endanger the cx- istence of the military academy itself, they will be apt to set thelr foot down hard and to notity the upper classmen that either hazing must step or they must prepare for dismiseal Good Thing for the Knockers. Minneapolls Times The amendment to the army bill abol- | shing the “canteen’” passed the house by but the experience of to warrant the be- lief that tho house is in error. The post- exchange, or So-called canteen, does seil beer and light wines, but under strict mili- tery regulations. If there were no other a large majority, source of alcoholic supply accessible to | soldiers than the canteen, their average in the matter of temperance would be high The business of selling liquor to soldiers will be turned over to the dives if the post | exchange is abolished, and everyone knows what sort of polson they dispense. The abolition of the canteen will be a good thing for the dealers in wood alcohol and a bad thing for the, soldiers. Milttary Critles Hushed. Springficid Republican. One result of the South * -an war hat been to stimulate increased intercst amoag British military cities in our civil war and espectally in the work of those cavalry bodies which foreign experts were long wont to refer to coutemptuously as “‘only mounted infant As it happens, mounted infantry is very much the thiag since the queen's crack regiments have run up against it and there is very marked re- gpect in the tone In which English critics have been discussing a new life of General Forrest, who, In the opinion of many ex- perts, was the greatest cavalry leader the war produced. Some critics, by the w have been speculating as to what the up- shot of our war would have been if the confederates had resorted to irregular tac- tics at an early stage of the hostilities in- stead of trying to meet a numerically su- perior foe on even terms. QUALIFYING TO BE A COLONE Editor of Norfolk Drllling Regularly and Studyine Artiof W Norfolk News. When an humble individual sat down this morning to a breakfast of gruel and black coffee, to all intents and purposes he was only an ordinary citizen, and rather & dyspeptic ordinary citizen at that But, unbeknown to him, the hand of f had already marked him for distinction was proven when he opened his mail, find'ng a letter, which read as f-llows LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 17—Hon W Huse. Norfolk, Neb.: Dear Sir—In view of the fact that complications are arising in this country and we are lable t precipitated into gereral war needing someone on my staff reputation of belng a warrior I therefore extend to v ointment of coloncl on my staff, wnd hote ou will accept the same. ~ 8r v vours, L } H DIETRICH Dear goverror, the train does to carry the mes- sage of acceptance, for fear you may change your mind. Of course he will a cept. DId anvone ever know of a politi- cal Job being tendered him that he did not take, with one exception of candidate for state auditor? True, that was the only other time anything political was offered, but mow he proposes to cling this coloneley like a drowning man to & board Of course the governor is labor- ing under & wrong impression as to the bravery of the warrior aforesaid, but let it Ko at that. Many things are not all thev seem In politics, as elsewhere, It would appear that a real live colonel ought to have at least a slight Idea of things military, but what the new colonel does not know about the affairs would fill a large leather bound volume fastened with an fron clacp. However an emergency existe, he proposes to at onc commence a course of instructions under the direction of Colonel fracy, which it 15 hoped, by the time of the Inaugural ball, will enable him to give the military salute and grand hailing sign of distress. Then, by keeplug an eye on the dress suit of Ross Hammond, who has also bren made & o louel by the governor, he will undertak 0 per- form the welghty dutles dovolving upon him in & manner which will not bring disgrac: to the governor. Friends might drop around when they have leisure and offer congratulations and | a clgar, but don't forget to approach with @ certain deferential air and remember that hereafter nothing goes but “Colonel. morning b an 1 having brave and u the ap ) Accept? as DR, Indianapolis ex-President them Jour Clev to com: aside nal: Thos and's pare with e w thos CLEVELAND'S DIAGNOSIS, ho read views should put e which Mr. Bryan will give in a speech on January After the to the conclusion democratic parties comp t arison the hat 80 ¥ will there must be diverse and come two con. flicting are the time-honored principles the democracy Paul Ploneer ¥ undoubtedly the s from party 1s sufiering, prescribes is a lit to democratlc princ efficacious nostrum are democfatic prin rezs: D, which the obscure iples” is But what nciples? It Cley Ad no d is 1 eland fs | quite right in bis diagnosis of democratic but the remedy which he dherence oubt an t? What like a preacher advising a sinner to seek salvation by embracing the tr ue fa th and then leav- ing him to find out what the true faith is. Minneapolis Journ lihcod that Mr. CI al levelana ¢ ould Is there any like- induce democracy to abandon all its later declara- which he concedes are tions of principle, more fashionable for the adequate,” or, “time-honored” abandoned? | what is t tin as that th ha e re shopworn and in- | the famillar phrase principles that He says reorganization is not wanted, but glve the rank and file a chance what is the rank and file to belleve? | 1s, ve been medy M is an ho is to formulate democratic principles and what will they be after they are form- ulated stand for? anybody tell? Milwaukee be eald Sentinel What does the democratic par Mr. Cleveland doesn't say Can The most that can Is that the democracy’s abandon- | ment of its new Issues and its new leaders must precede, unless the republicans commit some unthinkable act of folly, the enjoyment | of even a short term of power by the dem- | Cleveland | ocrats. What Mr. says upon this part of the subject deserves the at- | tention of all members or his party | return from our wandering,” he writes | absolutely essential. “A “Ia Bloomington Echo: The fusion press | politicians over the state are complaining bitterly because of the contest of the seat Ing of the fusionists who were elected upon | the face of the returns by a very few vote | These fellows forget that a few years ago several republicans who b high 1,100 majority, were thrown over the tran- som and upon no grounds whatever except | that their places were wanted by the scheming politicians. North Platte Telegraph: The naming of Norris Brown of Kearney as deputy attorney general by Attorney General | Prout {s an act that will be appreciated | by all republicans of the ern | part of the gtate. There are some in | other parts of the state who think that too | many plums at the disposal of stats officers are going to one locality, but In so | far as this appointment is concerned Nor (rie Browa merits all that he ge! and | more. Success and happiness go with him | for he is a right good fellow York Times: It anybody of republicanism in Nel | been able to find him rigorous in denounciug others for shortcoming in party fealty, at so more or less remote should examine their {own record carefully with a view to find- ‘mg out whether or not they are in condi- tion to “cast the first stone.” This Is a | year of jubllee for republicans and should | be for everyone, and the man who stood on the firing line and bore his share {n the fight should not be taboo of former political shortcon are a good many who have not of this kind more or less successfu | creted in their closets. Now is a good time in this year of redemption | restoration and jubilee to clean them all | out and start a new era. The first year of | the new century will also be the vear cof | Nebraska's redemption Loup City Times-Independent: We no- tice that the state press are commenting as has a monoply braska we have not Men who are most some o date of ald not | lawyer will practice | 4 on account | sesee ssssssssscansa BEST THAT HAPPENED Hastiog The Hlustrated oo quite p ar and the was cldedly The t and tast has produced many go but to eur of tt “Two Et is the ever happened.” It s w ing"” in ol - . . . . ‘ . v Insu illustr Mr Bostwick, t apher,” shows | in selecting his su A way gineers” Chicago Chronicle New York judge has ju cught to be home It is perfectly hour is for a le to return to the daylight. The enough as it is Chicago Tribune: Under this de the only relief for women who will be in unreasonable hours is to provide tb selves with nightkeys and go o q after the manner of men. The nightkey is one of the masculine emblems of | erty. No man is without one. Som may not be able to use them at unfeas able hours without considerable difficult but every man clings to his nightkey clously. Women have not realize value of that little {nstrument Baltimore American: A judge of the York reme court ruled lone woman has a perfect right to stay till midnight and that if her la not allow her a latchkey he in when she rings. In the near f more than likely the high of the land will decree that a lat also a feminine privilege v woman's inalienable right of happiness guaranteed tion, and then the victory be complete An o held later t that th on requir hearth are doin b etogred clear ] de b women estic dlor. let that in by of the sex w Indianapolis New The New York s preme appears to have precipitated the nightkey controversy upon the country in a way which makes a final settle of the question imperative. In w e 4 woman sought to establish her right er her rented apartments after night the judge has sided with the lord, holding th the lease pe entrance only reasonable hours tenant need not be admitted after 12 o'clo; at night Inasmuch as no one has ques tloned a man’s right to be out late at night it he pleases, the precedent thus set bound to be reg: ing a spirit of unwarranted di court ent R R S IN THE FIGHT TO WIN Leigh World Edward Rosewater is in the sen atorlal fight to stay and it that he is going to compel the {slature to count him out will be one Un senators. osewnte kinds plenty of = [ @e*: | v IR e [ | leg of the Uni Me. fig! on the appropriation of about $50,000 to be | asked for in behalf of the State Board of | Agriculture. At the last session of the leg- Let us be frank with | i€lature an act was passed permanently lo- ourselves and candidly acknowledge the fu- ganizers of the d leveland Leads as enunciated | 1596 and reafrmed platform of 1900, against Clevelandisi Chicago convention nunclation of Grov lips |1u party 1892, becau | that the currency of inces ve! by representas when Cleveland | monometallism. | ocrats reasoned in Grover Cleyeland ar betrayers of thelr p: E UNCL Distances ¢ for B It is the there recent any ple of Great Brita ment in this coun Cleveland That emocratic r: One t d in was m in or Men 1866 wil Clevela ise they country tions of had Only tility of aitempting to gain democratic vic- tories except in the democratic cause and |WHICh to purchase a site. through democratic methods.” the or- disasters of 1896 and 1900 will dissent from this. hing went th bt nd De on They declared that they had been de- leaders of their been told that the financial plank of the platform of year meant a larger use of silver in the had been held in line for their party nom- that sort which should not be forgotten is that Bryaniem, in the Chicago platform of the Kansas City simply a protest to the tter de- thelr emocrats and was elected he aban- 1896 and nd all his arty t hey fol — | doned silver and made a fight for gold is the way the dem spurned wers as E SAM COMES 1N, Trade fa. 1t try. Duri timore American significance report of the London Beard of Trade is not very encouraging to the pe shows a in business the exact reverse of the move- in ng t six months the press of the Un a figures trend he last tates has been boasting of the immense increase | im our exports an small increase in o | tendency which s | powering ascende | tairs of the world | England, unfortun able to p figures for published ponderance fact, the creased creased only record of rs of the pry n tmportant evolution merce. of imports £5,488,500, £ yei 2,700, d the ur imports ast It proportionately is th glving us an over- in the commercial af- nately for over during while the it d in the de aff her, scnt so happy a plcture, ovember, which are the latest disclose an overwhelming pre- imports expo; November exports Contrasted with the cat Britain during the earlicr it airs is The rts. In in- in- ows an of com- For a loug period England enjoye an undisputed mastery in the export trade, and she competitors in the flelds. Indeed, ¥ | was the sole trad hardihood to ventur tried markets. direction built was cont up ngland nually develoy for enormous many ploneer which had stully into un- Her achlevements fortunes outrivaling her of y the in that for her leaders, and swelled to colossal totals th ness | The rapia dash | powertul exporting material effect premacy. While swelled the England hav failed i Our increa Great Britain, show making inroads Into territory. Our aggre terprising activiti tend them the London Board While we do annual on increases the volume of her export to her to the fro countries Great United to keep far wing that her hith ive enc export nt 18 o h Britain's Sta we & busi- f other aving K- has trade, tes proportionate outstrip th of fast rto exclusive and en bid fair to so far ex of Trade's not glory ves as to still further exp in reduce port fig. building up our fortunes on other people's reverses, England is bound propose to supplant her dominancy We | necessary | rest | both at home march Just publishe how that have al for mast content until an world b our ures | which month 8 proven to recogn I the force ery, and we rule road. The in the N 1, by our our impor 013 less the ize t wh we ai vem Bove te 1, than will hat we in the hich are not mmerce ction of nber g th 1899 or in while our exports were $12,823,083 greater That 16 & striking | Britain's record contrast to Great un- | cating the State falr at murificent sum Liucoln and the of $1 appropriated with This act of leg: |lelation compelled the managers of the te Board of Agriculture to improvise means with which to hold its annual falr, and through their efforts, ssisted by the liberality of the citizens of Lincoln, the old Nebraska exposition grounds at Lincoln were secured, and at an expense of $3,940 fitted up temporarily that the fair of 1600 could be held, This ground on which the State fair was held contains about 110 acres, within one mile of the business part of Lincoln, and the original expense of the grounds and bulldings as they are now lo- cated was $44.475. Under the intended ap propriation this ground Is to be purchased by the state of Nebraska, all kinds of live stock should be built, and it possible, a new mercantile hall also. The state of Nebraska needs such grounds for other uses, such as encampments, reunions, etc., and we do not think that a few of the citizens of this great state of Nebraska should be expected to furnish all the money, or even improvise means to furnish us with grounds, buildings, ete., with the edu- catlon and information derived from this state board. Elther make an appropriation or take from our statute books the law 50 at Britain in the Race | CTeating the Board of Agriculture. PERSONAL NOTES, The czarina has the greatest dificulty in speaking her husband's language and the words come out slowly and laboriously de- spite the many lessons given her by the czar. Privately the czar and czarina speak trequently in English, but their conversa- tion i3 gererally carried on in French Since July 17, 18 summer, John Mahin bas been editor of the Muscatine Journal, corsiderably outdoing any other lowa mewspaper man in length | of connection with one office. Mr. Mahin is still hale and happy, giving promise of many years more in the editorial harness General Isaac Kban Mofakbhamed Douleh Persia’s new minister, has arrived in Wash- ington and the social werld is raising its pincenez to view and udmire this latest and most interesting addition to the dip lomatic corps. Persia’s diplomat is young handsome, wealthy and withal a bachelo Senntor Hale, who in a general way has hitherto been looked upon as an exemplar of what is proper in male attire, horrified his colleagues the other afternoon by ap- | pearing among them wearing a high hat short coat—a combination supposed rmissible only on the east side of York a and a to be j Ne: tor Towne of Minnesota appeared in gton one afternoon recently with his neck swathed in bandages. *“Whaat s the matter?’ inquired a solicitous ac qualntunce. “Bolls,”" was the reply, “anl they come from one of two causes—bad blood working cut or an ingrowing excess of senatorial dignity a Embezzlements now business record like fires or fa for October in th are matter of lures, Those United States, according to the records of the Fidelity and Casualty company of New York gated $1 195, of which less than §130,000 were by offl | cials of federal, state and icipal gov ernmer More than one the total lies to th ount of bank ¢ or ployes 1t is not generally Senator Pettigrew son who has been fighting w He arrived in Savannuh a fe at once went to Washington 20 years of & for nown, perhaps, that of Soutn Dakota h the days He who foined some in th driven into the Por and there disermed, and the | ment paid their parsage home tigrew says that the Boers will make teresting for the British come, and he is anxiors to again join their I Boers ago i an Th territory teer servic ransva 1guese Duteh govern Young Pet It in for some time cause, new barns for | Indian seem too cul said the Cheerful laloi, I wish to say that hat away his time is not ¢ b he thinks he is Joyt pudii ‘ Detroit Free Pre g0 through a ral | *Jake the Jora | was to go thro | colltsion ever T dona ers after the 1gh t Miss partic Goodwin was't such a H1dn't need t) had to d» | (Chicago Tribune So you've asked | terrible ord | get excited, v Was to_keep The Young could have he. Pittsburg Chronicle this morning that_she bonnet,” sald Mr. Northside, gl oft,” replied M o well side. “My wife told me last night had ordered two. 1 pa pertectly co fan—C T was so cool you ard my tec v My must wife told have a & m ady- that | Indianapolis Press have ay up,’ said the In such case’ sa tory artist, Barnes can well reduce the attract the hot pollc Philadelphla Press remarked the optimist. ~ Af 1 ) find in overy at least some of the milk of human kindness £ “Huh!" grunted the cynie. *What you do find is usually the condensed var Egs [ comedian r all yo | Cleve N Plain by and Deal “If any peopla rah, be sure to tell them [ am out are you waiting for? It doesn't dis: consclence, does {12 ma’'am. 1'm hardened to it_I've worked for soclety liars before, ma'am.” al What Post: They were looking at the s occupying two seats while orced to stand I should Sudge,” sald one, “that he would bring ab “On what do you base your estimate asked the other. i “The present price of pork and sausage. Washington Star @ bonnet” she inquired man at her side T waid.” sh “lan’t that Again there quired in a tone Well, why don't vo “My dear, you seemed to_enjoy was afrald of waking you up. THE CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARE, “Isn't that a dream of pointedly of tha repeated after a silence, m of a bonnet? was #llence And ¥ reproach say scmething?* 1t s, she in- | Carolyn Wells in the Criterfon. the night before Christmas there's something amiss vith your placid. habitual slumber: tdenly find that your overworked mind 1s harassed by | | | on | cares without number. the thought that the hought ur friends have ox- | You are stirred by | gifts you have Are less than pected your heart is beset gret That the things were not better sclected. And by a nervous re- You cannot lie your brain's in a riot And fiars for the dinner oppress you The e may be tough or the cook In a qulet, Or the children’s behavior distress y You can't get breath worrled to death Lest the weather ant; Your eyes ach you turn And think over everyone's present. your you're may turn out unpleas- and burn as you toss and Affalr, cxpersive and rare iite wisted on Dora tempted o wish you had glven The Dre veally or Flora 100k I that beautifu] book I transfer ft to Mais to give Dick that eb: Dick never will 80 you think Then” you'll have stk ; But by thi you're time just about erazy and roll, a fear thrilis i meone left out should feel slighted J&h you deubt if you're able to seat tround the table Buests you've The already invited can fall short—there's only a auart meone may wil " or waltlng and Edward K e 1 1 you're ready to ery; W vou to win her Christmas holds noth relations to dinner. ter and sigh won't uil efore your