Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 9, 1901, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY E ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, IRMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION: Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year Daily and Bunday, One Year Lilustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, Ona Year . Baturauy Bee, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER without Sunday, per cop without Bunday, per week inciuding Suhday, per week Bunday per copy . ing Hee, withou 10k Bee, ineludin Compiainte of irreguirities ¥ shoula be addressed to City Circulation e partment., T (7 OFFICES The Bee Bullding City Hail Bullding Omaha Bouth Omaha A1th ana M Btrects Council Blufts. 10 Pearl Street hi 0: 1640 Unity Buliding. Kow york: Tempie Court Washington. 6ol Fqurteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to n torial matter should be nddressed. Bee, Editoriul Department BUSINESS LETTERS, ness lotters and ttances should be ed: The Mee Pubiishing Company REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order \payable to The Hee Publishing Company {Qnly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of |mail accounts. Personai checks, except on [Omana or eastern exchanges, not accepted, THE BEE PUBLIBHING COMPANY Twenty- « and edl Omaha Bu: addr Omaha STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. |Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ws | George B. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, |says that the actual _number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during |the month of October, 190l, was us fol- 1 28,500 20,920 a0 29,100 29,080 ..21,081 29,000 29,200 28,620 170 1 ...38,630 ..28,a50 Total Less unsold and returned coples 11,650 V17,840 0,864 “TvoT,a7 t total wales t dally average 20,374 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thiy 3lat day of October, A D. 101 M. B. HUNGATH (Seal) Notary Publi That republican majority in Nebraska KTOWS upon us, form an Towa branch of the society of also-rans, As an expert in the effective use of promises the sultap of Turkey is en titled to first priz Euclid Martin is reported as repellin the Inginuation that he is ambitious to it in the may Euclid Martin 1s 0 wily politic The re i Nebraska only gives added proof to the fact that calumity talk will not make votes nmong people reveling in prosperity. . re— The county commissioner muddle seems to have been thickened instead of clarified by the appeal for a popular verdict at the ballot box. T man who takes the most satis: faction out of the election of the Pearse candidates for the Board of Education 1s the western agent of the school book rust. In view of the outbre at the Tort Leuvenworth prison cautious people are warned to beware of extending too warm hospitality to strangers hailing from Kausas. Colonel Bryan announces in the Com moner that he will take another wee to frame up an explanation that will #till hold out some hope to the Nebraska faithrul. When a Shorthorn cow brings $5,000 on the market the argument that it pays stock breeders to ralse high grade cattle receives an incontrovertible clincher. If Li Hung Chang's long life ix to be credited to his practice of carrying a coffin around with him the habit of being measured for a cofin long In ad vance of the death call may yet become popular. Exclusive cireles that possess secrets of the supreme court, yet use a news paper to give those secrets publicity, elther are not so exclusive or the secrets of the court originate outside of the court room, The two referees appointed by the su preme court in the Standard Ofl case are to have §1,200 cach for their services, It is needless to say that these little favors have e reserved exclusively for fusion attor active in party poli tics, — The well-defined rumors committee of the school board does not seem to be in any rush to break into the grand Jury room, Like the heby and the toy, the clamor for the grand jury was loud est only while it was supposed it conld not be had. SeT—— Never before iu the history of Ne braska have the citizens of this state had more cause to he thankful for worldly blessings than at present” be. gns Governor Savage's Thanksgiving proclamation. This puts the whole situ ation o a nutshell. The railroads are again indulging in speed competition for the privilege of boasting the fastest passen; trains, Competition for the privilege of giving patrons the lowest rates, however, is refully subjected to restriction on the vommuuity-of-interest plan. Those Washington correspondents are certalnly overlooking unprecedented op portunities. Not one of them has yet glven us a complete advance copy of President Roosevelt's forthcowing mes- Ag® 10 congress. How can the presi- dent write his message without this assistance from the journalistic mind roaders? Fred White and Tom Phillips might | jion o¢ the obligations imposed upon it | missloner WILL CAUSE NO CHANGE. | Mr. Rockhill, formerly American com to China, has expressed the opinion, which Washing tou, that the death of Li Hung Chang will cause no change in the relations of China foreign recently created. 1t 1s not expected 1o have any effect ppon the obligations which the Ohinese government has accepted as the ult of negotiations with th o far as the United Ktates is concerned it 18 pointed out that ite jnterests will not be involved directiy, since all that remains to be done at Pekin in which our government s interested is the preparation of trade and commercial treaties, the lines of which hay ‘n learly marked ont that the work to be done is almost mechanical It 18 not at all probable that the im perfal government, which veadily wented to all that was agreed to by peace plenipotentiaries, will now, cause of the death of one of them, at tempt to reopen any question that has been adjusted or venture to reject any understanding that has been It understands the grave danger that would result from such a course and it I8 too anxlous for peace and the com plete rehabilitation of the government to tuke any further risks. The agre ments made by the dead statesiman with the foreign ministers we un qualifiedly approved by the imperial au thorities aud they will stand. . China will faithfully carry them out, knowing that failure to do so would certainly result to her disaster, Russian interests and aims in China espectally vegarding Manchuria, may bhe unfavorably affected by the death of LA Hung Chang, whose pro-Rus$iun sym- pathies were well known. It is thought that a change in the Manchurian situn tion is now probable which would allow that rich provinee to be opened up to the commerce of the world, a matter in which the United States is particularly futerested. 1t i8 said that the Russian is <ha at 1o powers 0 its be miuister at Pekin earnestly endeavored | Earl LI died to secure his seal to the Manchurian convention, which if a fact showed how greatly Russin relied upon him. It is quite possible, however, that had he lived he would have been unable to ald Russia on the day in her designs, owing to the opposition | of other powers, particularly Great Britain and the United Japan, tates China, it Is safe to assume, will take | 1o backward step and attempt no eva- by the powers. It has had a lesson that its rulers will long remember. Pe haps there will be internal disturbances, but the fmperial government will keep faith with foreign powers, since upon that depend its existence and the preservation of the empire. The re nunclation of any obligation which China has entered into would be the signal for a movement against her the end of which would be dismemberment and the partition of her territory among Western powers. A MAN WHO WILL AUT. Next in importance 1o the election of Seth Low mayor of N the choice of Justice Jero trict attorne, Indeed it was absolutely essential to the complete carrying out of the work of reform which the new government will have to do, for the ex- ecutive without a district attorney in sympathy with him might be seriously hindered and obstructed in his efforts for reform. Jerome is quite as ardent and determined a reformer as Mr. Low, so that it may be expected that they will work together amicably and nestly Justice Jerome was a leadiug tigure in the campaign and did most effective service for the fusion ticket, He was tireless and no one showed up fully or denounced more vigorously the vices and the corruption of Tammany. As district attorney Jerome will very likely find o way to visit the law upon some of those T manyites who have been for years profiting by vice aud cor- ruption and criminal practices. It must be that some of the men now in the city government are amenable to prosecution and if 50 Jerome 18 evidently the man to hunt them out and deal with them as they deserve, Mr. Croker will un- doubtedly be back in England before Jerome goes into ofice and will perhaps remain there several years, but some of his political associates cannot do this, These may find New York Clty an un safe place of resides RURAL DELIVERY EXTENSION President Roosevelt Is favorable continuing the extension of the free delivery system. At a ference with the postmaster is sald 10 have expressed himself ear uestly in favor of the development of the service to the ideal that the friends of the system have had in mind for years, It is understood that iu his annual re port the postmaster general will recom ad an appropriation of $6,000,000 for the maintenance and extension of free delivery routes during the next fiseal car and it is expected (hat will do this. It is said to be in contem plation to place this under the civil service rul %0 that the carriers will be protected and vetained n employ ment on the merit plan and without ve gard to political nfluences Mr. A, Wa Machen, who charge of the rural delivery sinee Ig started, predicts that in a Very few years every farmer in the land will have his wail delivered at his o The spread of the servi e las demonstrated that it will Lave the most fmportant effect on the business opportunities of the farmer and it will bring the tradeswen of the citics in sueh intfuate relations with the farming community that gradually we shall some remurkable results in our domestic commerelal world. - He de clared that it would be impossible now to deprive those parts of the countr; that have become habituated to th froe rural delivery system of its advan- tages. The onte against auy attempt to do away with it would soon me a political issue that would have to be reckoned with promptly is no doubt that the system is permanent, nor is there any question as e 10 be dis to rural ent con eneral he - has had system n s, uitimately see powers. | reached, | v York City was | ear- | ngress | THE | to it great benefit. At present near! LOG000 people are enjoying fts advap tuges and within five years the number will ¢ eral times that, if | sufficient to ena- | prompily As an edu value of overestl ubtless be s the appropriations ar ble the the applications fo | eational fnfluence rul delivery mated department to meet rontes the alone froe cannot A CONDITION--NOT A THEORY The I on taxation by Prof. hetore the league should for cibly vers that they re confronted by a condition and not a | th Wealth eanuot be created by law, ueither can ideals of taxation be colned into effective revenue legislation under existing conditions, The whole structure of our tax system stands on a sandy foundation, So long ors can stroteh their conscienc and apprajse property at figures out of all proportion to its market value, so long of equalization continue to diseriminate favor of the big cor. | porations and against small proper tu Ross I ipress ‘onomic the taxp, oy 15, 1880R% us boards in chattels can successfully cover up r Loldings or return them at ridicu lously low figures, equitable taxation is “an irideseent dream.” What wanted fivst an awakening of the public con uce ayainst wholesale perjury on the part ot assessors and tax shirkers. Thut sentiment ean only be created by a selfish vealyzation of the imequality and mjustice 4¢ the present mode of assesspient and oyualization. Effective tax reforn will come guly after the ap praisement of taxable property Is made uniforne and under Stvation by officers is punixhed and concealment by prop- erty owners entails penalties. The conclusions of Prof. Itoss regard g the viclousness of the present tax system are eminently sound, but his | recommendations eannot be inangurated | in Nebraska without first changing the nstitutio pr relative to | revenne and tasation. | Prof. Ross would have the state goy crnment maintained exclusively by taxes fmposed on corporations and In heritunces, leaving the county, city and school governments to be supported by taxes on realty. Both of these proposi tions might work very well in Pennsyl- vania, New York, New Jersey or Massa- chusetts, where corporate property | vuns into the billions and the estates of millionaires and multi-millionaires are | common. In those states a light tax | on corporations and inheritance would meet all the demands of state govern ment, while in an agricultural state llke | Nebraska such taxes, unless extremely | high, would be inadequate to the sup | port of the state government. In great | cities like New York, Philadelphia and Boston, Jwith their enormous realty values, no ditficulty would be encoun- tered in meeting the cost of city, county and school government from a realty tax coupled with license and franchise taxation. But In Nebraska such a policy would be unfair. The exemption of all personal property would operate ax A hardship on home owners and citi- | zens who bave invested In factorles, business blocks, etc, whose burdens are heavy cnough now and whose reve- nues could not be incrensed by higher ntals, The tax problem must be met in Ne braska with u view to existing condi tions and constitutional limitations A few years ago American students who wanted the best instruction in | wcientific branches crossed the Atlantic to enroll themselves in European uni versities. Now European students are heading for Amerlca to learn the ad vances made In scientific work entering into Awerican industrial activity. Noth ing could illustrate better the progress | made in rvecent years by in sclence and industry. Is and foremost s seve visions America One of the railroads wants to gobble up another piece of Omaha's streets, Of course the street is of no value what- eve If the elty, how , in laying out new streets wanted to occupy land belonging to the railroad the p of realty gy ward, e would take a sudden shoot Music of the Band. Chicago Tribune No fault can be found with the esteemed Omaha Bee if it continues to emit a loud buzz for several days. Pass it Up, Washington Post The incomplete returos from Rhode | Islana indlcate that the presidential Thanksgiving turkey will be forthcoming as usual Bewn Chicago Record-Herald. It Schley accepts all the invitations he may vet succeed in getting a case of dys- pepeia that will blanket Sampson’s com- pletely, In Same C) Detroit Free Press. There ar 2,326,205 illiterates of age in the United States and several mil- lion others that habitually vote the ticker | straignt voting | Helng n World ¥ Philadelphia Rec Accordiug to the program perfected by the naval board of construction, the modest proposal is to be made to congress to pro- vide the ways and means for building thirty two mew war ships for the navy, something 1ike $33,000,000 power Is mighty baving ambitions ihat pay for the privilege. Cotonizing Boers In Wy Philadelphia Ledgdr The project of establishing a colony of Boers iu Wyoming may be an excellent one, | though the change from the hot climate of South Africa to that of the northern United States will be violent; but this will accommodate only & small percentage of e Boers, Still, 1t will probably be sum cient for all who are wHIILg to come. Mos( of them do not yet scem fo have abandoned hope of ultimately settling down in peace- ful possession of thelr own land. A Thing to Study. Minneapolis Times The Nebraska bureau of labor and indus- trial statistics has issued a township map of the state, accompanied by & compilation of facts relating to Nebraska's material progress. Surrounding the map will be 10 cost Being a world and nations must expect expensive. way OMAHA DAILY | 1t is he | tw BEE: SATURDAY, N lands, grain and live stock sa range of pric®s for the vear price of tarm lands, banke, libraries, put schools, churches fac nfor mation of every kind necessary 1o a correc understanding of the commonwealth « T the ith th selling n abulated o | m | ———— | vide for the Rainy v Day Springfield The Ohlo supreme the teachers' pension law by tors in (M public schools clties are assessed 1 per cen nuAl salaries to create g efit of those retiring by age from service 1 to be “special legislation,” what ever that may mean fn such a case as this f public «chool teachers are not forehand enough (o0 provide for the rainy day them selves, what s 10 be said of the claims of the masses of the people for state control in the matter? American Invas cour blicar has overthrown | which Instry of the of their an ind for the ben s larger Philadelphfa Press The consternation of the English o American invasion increases day Some effort has been made to stom by the imitation of American produ %0 far it has failed of For ample, an Englishman attempted to imitate the American daylight bank robber. He entered the most promising banking house. revolver in hand. and called on the clerks | to hold up their hands. He shot the cashior | dead, but on belng tackl by a clerk he turned his revolver on himself and cheated the gallows. The tdea was bold, but because he lacked American skill the imltator failed. as most imitators must. The Germans have | been no more successful with their Imita tlons of American sewing machines, bicycles | and some other articles or tha day tide but ex by he SISTENT SURPLUS, I Remedy, Tusntion the Indianapolis News With a surplus piling up in reasury at the rate of $9,000,000 & month Secretary Gage has again been driven to the purchase | of bonds at a figure somewhat in exe the market price. Two things are now evi 1 dent which apparently did not occur to those who cnacted the revenue reduction | bill. One is that continued presperity and | large business operations have had a tend ency to keep up revenue and the other fs that expenditures have greatly fallen off For, though | receipts have slightly de- | creased, expenditures have decreased in a | very marked degree Last month, for in- stance, shows a falling off of only $2,000,000 in the receipte as compared with October | of 1900, while the disbursements have fallen off by 1,300,000 Customs receipts actually show an increase of almost $2,000,000. | For the four months of the present fiscal vear the total recipts wero $161,950,841, which Is only $5,400,000 than for the | corresponding four monihs of 1900. Even it | Atsbursements had continued as they were last year thero would still have been a sur- plus under the new law. But the disburse- ments have fallen off heavily T being $27 000,000 less than they were for the same month of 1900, Tom which it will be seen that the outgo is decreasing much more rapldly than the fncome, and this, of| course, means a growing surplus. As the | surplus was $75,000.000 last year it will be | seen that at the present rate of increase it | is likely to reach something over $120,000, - 000. So it 18 not surprising that Secretary Gage shoull do what he can to keep the | money in circulation, Of course, there are two ways of check 1ng the surplus. We can r taxation or Increase expenditures. We can leave the | money where 1t ought to be, in the pock- | ets of the people, or we can embark on a | career of extrayagance, keep taxes up fo | the highest notch and have a “‘good time" | with our income. There will be many ap- | peals 0 the generosity of congress, based on the fact that the country fs rich and powerful. We shall be asked for large ap- propriations for the navy, subsidies for our merchant marine, money for the isthmian canal, rivers and harbors. public buildings without limit, peusions for everybody who ever wore a uniform, and so on. The temptation will be great and it will take some strength of characier to resist it Yet it will be well for nt and congress to remember that good times can mot continue indeflnitely, that taxation burdensome, even though the people do not greatly feel it In prosperous days, and that | extravagance and waste do drain the re sources of a nation and make it difeult for 1t to endure the stress of hard times when they come. Plainly, the thing to do 18 to reduce taxation and to do it heroically he s of | the presi I8 s ANOMALOUS PENSION FIGURES, Soldiers of Seeking Post of the commissioner comparisons between clvil and the Span- that must strike the surprisiog, to put it Chicago The annual report of pensions makes certain results of (l ish-American wars average person us mildly, Te begin with, the veteran of the short contlict of 1898 has much more Mberal pen- sion ullowances than the veteran of 1865, In 1805 the minimum pension was estabe lished at § month. Nearly 100,000 sol- diers of the civil war received from $1 (o $1 a month from 1865 1805, A civil war veteran got $5 a month for the loss of an arm or leg; the veteran of today receives $46 & month for a like loss But there are siill more surprising things in this report. The civil war lasted four years and the casualiies were enors mous; the Spanish-American war was over | in four months and the casualties were comparatively few. Yet three years after | the latter confiict claims for pensions | amounting (o 20 per cent of the number of soldlers engaged in that war had heen filea, while in 1872, or seven years after the close of the civil war, only about & per cent or soldlers engaged in that war had filed | wims i Recognizing the drawn from such a comparison, the com- | migstoner says that he is not prepared to belleve that those who engaged In the war with Spain, many of them sons of veterans of the civil war, were less patriotic or more than thelr ancestors. In his i the fault of the syst of pensioning, with its ac my of attor neys, solicitors and d who are practically licensed by the government with the promise of for each clalm allowed. It not seem credible that out of every five men tha: enlisted for the Span ish-American war one Is entitled fo Iife hounty from Uncle Sam. The United States 5 Most generous to its soldiers, but does it not ook gs though advantage were being taken of this generosity? The pension law is designed to benefit those who have ved injury fighting the| country's wars, but, according (0 Mr. Evans' repori it also makes beneficiaries of & great many | who are not entitled to permanent suppo Thore is no good reason why a ‘“‘veteran of the Spanish-American war or the Phil ippine insurrection should eive a much more liberal pension than that first given to a veteran of the civil war., There i omething anomalous In the that the percentage of claims from ‘‘veterans’ of 1898 should be nearly four times that made y the veterans of 1865, Most ‘clearly pension laws sadly need revising 1o be hoped that to natural Inference o he | covetous opinion, it m does fact o and it ongress will soon muster found statistics of rallroad aud governmen' | { ourage enough to undertake the work. | | the | ana | India and Ceylon are given by the Indian | each ¢ | who 15 elected by his fellow-prisoners and | | to an | n | cation | although | plaius have suffered some from mildew aud | has not caused any serious damage and has | oftice OVEMBER 9, 1901, o The new title chosen by King Edward hae | of and comparative | On his accession (o0 t throne {t was seriously proposed by some of the most ¢ imperialists that a alogue of the colonies should be included in the special empbasis being lald the quisition in h Africa King Bdward's chojee of a roval designation is | safer, however for 1t necessitates no | hange whether the British possessions rise | or fall In number. King “of the British Do- | minions Beyond the Is elastic enough | m All changes of circumstances for | many years, whether favorable or unfavor- | able to the crown. It admits of & policy of | indefinite annexation and also forestalls the | possibility of bumiliating amendment lll[ meri novelty brevity bje itle la on case England should lose some of her col onies 1t js remarkabie that in Germany, where absolutism still prevalls (0 A large degree in government, judicial opinion regarding the right of picketing in sirikes ahould be developing in a way exactly opposite from | that in America and England. Attention | has frequently been called the past few | months to the decisions of English and | American courts against picketing A few vears ago the Prussian Diet passed a law | prohibiting the practice, but in a recent | decision the supreme court of the lI"Hllul\' empire, upon an appeal from a labor or ganization in the city of Lubeck, decided that the law was unconstitutlonal in that it restricted the liberty of the citizen rikers, therefore, can now use argument moral suasion all they please with other workmen in German labor confilcts, | but cannot, of course, seek to {nfluence them through methods of violence. The laws and constitutions of ®ngland and America are not the same as Germany's, vet It fs a strange fact that the German courts, rather than the English and Ameri- can, have decided this question 80 as not to curtail individual liberty. e Some particulare concerning the way in which the Boer prisoners are treated in correspondent of the Clvilta Cattolica, a periodical published in Rome. They at number about 10,000 and are dis- in six camps, namely, at Diyatal- Ceylon, Ahmednagar in Hombay Madras and Trichinopoly in southern India. Each prisoner fs provided with @ sun helmet, canvas shoes, slippers light flannel facket, shirt, drawers, stock- ings and pocket handkerchiefs, Each has | a camp bedstead and mattress with pillow and two coverlets. As regards food, they sive the same allowance as ls made to soldiers who guard them, while the Boer officers are provided for {n the same s British officers serving in the fleld. The camp consists of long rows of mud bins, thatched with straw ke those of the natives, arranged in wide, clean streets, lit up at night by the eleetric light. In bin there are from ten to twelve prisoners in charge of one of the Boers, present tributed awa i Bellary way siyled captain. Around all the cabins | there is a barrier of barbed wire, outside of which are the cabins of the Engljsh sol- diers who keep guard. The prisoners get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and Ko to bed at 9:30 o'clock at might. Twice a week they are taken out for exercise, ac- companied by British soldiers. Except at appointed times no Boer is allowed to pass | the barrier which surrounds the cabins un- | der pain of death, but the officers are per- mitted under parole to go wherever they like. The military authoritles have pro- vided amusements for the prisoners and often the soldiers on guard join them in a friendly game” at cricket or foot ball Money from friends muet be handed over official, who will restore it when they are set at lberty of certain ariicles which hav appeared in the Paris press on French territory In Germany, namely, the spots of ground on which siand the monuments of Turenne and Marceau, it is recalled that there exists near Fraukfort, in Friedrichs- hof, a colony of workingmen, 2,000 in num ber, who are the descendants of French Protestants who emigrated after the revo- f the edict of Nantes. Thess people have kepl to the cusioms of their anc tors, as also to their language, which they are sald to speak with perfect purity, with | all the “cachet” of phrasing of the grand | slecle. Only French is spoken among {hemselves and no marriages are made with the German families surrounding them. Apropos According to private advices based upon | Italian official forecasts and personal ob- servations the present Ttalian vintage is s0id to surpass any for several vears back. Especlally in Tuscany, in the neighborhood of Florenge, and Carmignano the yield of grapes has been far in excess of the most sanguine expectations on the part of the| growers. The quallty, t0o, Is reported to be excellent, as, from the absence of disease aud the frequency of rain, which Is often $0 much needed In the early days to de- velop the frult, the vines have had every chance, so that the yield of such well-known Italian wines as Chianti, Lagrima, Cristi, Baralo, Barbera and Capri will be both abundant and of unusual flavor. Similar re- ports come from the south—from Calabria Sicily, and the wine-growing districts In the vicinity of Naples, which produce peculiarly-flavored grape of their own the vineyards "situated on the | severe hailstorms vet ments have been compensated for by the almost entire absence of that dreaded enemy, the “peranospera,” which, although it has made fts appearance here and there, these retarding ele- been easily overcome by the usual remedies OLITICAL DRIF There is no objection to Mr. Croker tak ing his bar'l and doing the Niagara cat- aract Henceforth, whatever offices the fusion istg plok up in Nebraska may be classed as pure velvet." The dawn of better things politically in Buffalo follows the election of Knight to the of mayor Mayor Seth Low of New York is a splen- qaid of the scholar fn politics. May his tribe increase 1t the veformers keep hammering away, elphia may eventually yield. The 'y 18 young y Several of the big corporations York City played to win, as usual city election by both campaign type in New In the contributing like sums to funds from Wolfert's Roost ighboring political storm did not of David Bennett Hill Advices that the v disturb._the Like B'rer Rabbit, he lay low. The breezy Washiogton Post tbat Mark Hauna proved himself the cruiser Hrooklyn of the Ohio situation. He drew all the fire of the enemy and beached the whole fleet Secretary indicate repose remarks Walsh of the - tional commitiea thinks should turnish the democratic candidate for presi- 1904, Gumshoe Bill Stone s look- democratic 0 Missouri dent in ing up Mayor ing n 000 ond In quality Practically New York Seth Low will have mes on a payroll ager W York's pie ¢ to that of the national government and quantity of nutriment /Il the newspapers of Greater rted the reform ticket and the newspapers of a say In plac- 1ng $25,000 sunter 1 sec a year Nearly von all | blow to W. J. Bryan. | mentality the democratic and populist pare | alone asking for a third nomination at Light, Sweet Wholesome. Bread, Cake Delicious Pastry are more casily, speedily, unfailingly made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER Royal Baking Powder is the great- est of time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes the food more digestible and healthful. The ‘‘Royal Baker and Pastry Cook ' — over 800 practical and valpable cooking re- ceipts —free to every patron. Send full address. ‘There are cheap baking pow- ders, made from alum, but their astringent and cauter- izing qualities add a dangerous element to food. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 8T, NEW YORK. Philadelphia supported the local reform ticket and Jost. If allowance i& glven for the tough material Quaker City newsp perg had to work on the result fairly meas- ures the influenco of the prews. HES OF FUN, Pittsburg Chronel are canards so called” Mr. Bnaggs—Recause usually they ara things that a fellow canardly belleve. Mrs. Snaggs-Why There must be considerable walling and | gnashing of teeth In the staid old English village of Want Richard of today 18 not the Richard et vesterday, and his dimin- ished facome next year will seriously em- barrass projected improvements fn the vil- lage and check the export of gold from New York, VERDICT OF NEBRASKA, Minneapolls Journal: creases Its republican majority. did his best to prevent it, but republican Even Nebraska In- | Mr. Bryan | Philadelphia Press: “1 hear your club s going to glve an entertainment. Do vou think 1t will be a success?’ | "Bure to be. Wo've arranged it so that | every member is chairman of at least one committee. Novellat (desperately) ance I shall Brooklyn Tife: Unless my book succeeds at starve to death! | Publisher (cordially) mend your resolution. | do “would better | think. My dear sir, 1 com Nothing vou could advertise your wonk, I Claveland Plain Dealer: Fat Man—My dear Doy, do you know that one of the bost of adages 1a ““There in always room prosperity is running things in Nebraska |above?" nowadays Chicago Tribune: Bryan is unmistakable. to place himself a considerable distance in the rear and comply with the customary re- quirements. Milwaukee Seutinel: The defeat of the fusion ticket in Nebraska will be a severs Through his fnstru- ties in that state were once more brought into perfect accord and every effort was made to win back the state. Without Kan- sas and Nebraska both In his column of sure states Mr. Bryan will have no excuse for going inio the next democratic national convention aud presenting his Chicago and Kausas City platforms for endorsement, lot the hands of the party. The reorganizers of the party can well afford o turn a deat ear 1o his pleadings if he does not succeed fn holding his own state in line Chicago Chronicle: The defeat of the Bvan fusion populistic and democratie ticket in Nebraska eliminates Mr. Bryan from all consideration of democrats in the future as (o their platform and natfonal candidate. As his last hold on the national democracy he announced his fntention to “redeem’ Nebraska from the republicans, who carried it against him in 1900, Ne- braska was pot “redeemed:” it gave & greater republican majority than it gave a year ago. There are uo unkind feelings toward Mr. Bryan; his future 1s before him. Dot behind him, as is the caske with many defeated leaders, He may fll a career of political usefulness which never would have been possible in a national administration and policy founded on the uneafe, impra ticable basis of the Chicago and Kans Clty platforms. The democracy must look to the future, not to the past. Its vision wust be toward the rising issues, not that of retrospection over abandoned and barren fields of conflicts which ended in defeat The triumphs of the republican party will not be perennial. They will not be many In the future unless democratic blunders in the adoption of principles and of polictes shall always continue along the path of un- paralleled obstinacy and folly. The course is plain before us. It 18 visible to the eye of wisdom. Ite lines are palpable to the touch of common sense, The intimation to Mr. |fo work me for m He fs admonished | VeTy much mistooken. The Boy It may be as you sav, kind | gentlema But i vou think you are going lower berth you are Chicago Tribune: “What are you dolng these days?” asked the friend “I am’ Investigatng snails the amateur naturalist “Snals? 1 thought ornithology was your hobby." “‘Well, 1t uged (o be, but I found that birds were a little too—er—swift for me. " THE MODERN SCHOOL TEACHER Chicago Tribune Twas Baturday night and a teacher sat Alone, her task pursuing: Bhe averaged this and she averaged that, OF all that her class was doing, She reckoned percentage S0 many boy And so many girls all counted, And marked all the tardy absentees, And to what all the absence amounted anld Names and residences wrote in full, Over many columns and puges; Teutonle, African, Celt And averaged all their ages date of admisslon of every one, nd cases of flagellation And prepared a list of graduates For the county examination Her weary head sank low on her book, And her weary heart sull lower; For some of the puplls had little brains, And she could not furnish more She slept, she dreamed. it seemed she died, And her spirit went to Hades, And_ they met her there with 'a_ question a “Fl;ll- what the per cent of your grada A! # but slowly rolled away, aving but partial traces, And the teach spirit walked one day In the old famillar places. A mound of fossilized school reports Attracted her observatio Ax high as the state house dome, and as wide As Boston since annexation, She came to the spot where they burled her bones, And the ground was well bullt over; But laborers digging threw a skull Once planted beneath the clover. A _disciple of Galen, wandering by, Paused to look at’ the diggers, Aud plucking the skull up, look'd_ through e eye And waw it was lined with figures “Just as 1 thought,” sald the young M. D. ow easy it 18 10 kill ‘em' Statisties ossified every fold Of cerebrum and cerebellum. " “Tt's a great curlosity, wure,” sald Pat, By the bones you can tell the ereature'" “Oh, nothing sirange,’ said the doclor, “that Was a nineteenth-century teacher,” SATURDAY SPECIALS That are too good for these prices That may not sound reasonable, but judged by ordi- nar suits You'll find more st lish and more prices of Children’s Clothing, it is true enougly of our serviceable gar- ments for boys here than elsewhere, and you won't pay more than for the very much inferior stuff, dry goods stuf” Child’s Double-Breasted 2-Piece Suits, in plain blue, black and fancy mixed cheviots, sizes 8 to 14 years $5.00 Boyx' cheviot Long 1 single and double-breasted brillis nt finish black ints Nuits, ages 15 to 18 years - $10.00 No Clothing s Like Our: frowning-King - @ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. . S. Wilcox, Manager.