Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1901, Page 7

THE OMAHA THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF § Dafly Hee (without 8 Datly Bee and Sunday Ilustrated Bee, One Year Sunday Hee Yeur Saturday Bee, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee, without Sunday, per_copy Dally Bee, without Sunday, per week Daily Bee, including Sunday, per woek ay Bee, p y Evening Bee, without Sunday ning Bee! including Sunday, per week. | wularities in delivery City Circulation De HSCRIPTION: One’ ¥ per w eek. 19 | | should be | partment OFFICES. Omaha: The Bee Building Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding fifth and M Sirect Council Bluffs: 10 Penrl Street Chicago: 164 Unity Bullding w York: Temple Cour Washington ol Fourteenth Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news a {orial matter should bo uddresse Bee, Editor artment Bl |.\v LETTERS. letters and remittances should be The Bee Publishing Company, Twenty« | A edi- | Omaha Busin addre Omaha REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, cxpress or payable to The Bec P Only 2-cent stamps al order, castern exchanges, -d. BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btato of Nebraska, Douglas Count George B, Taschuck, secretary of Publishing’ Company g duly #ays that the actual number of full and {omplete ccples af 'The Dally, Mornin, Evening and Sunday Hee printed during th of October, 1901, was as fol+ Fhe Tiee sworn, month 20,100 0,050 220,080 20,0060 20,30 28,620 20,170 v 28810 L. 28,500 e 28, TO0 e. 28,850 ee 20,020 28,500 20,020 28,680 28,6180 L 28,050 Total Tess unsold and returned coples DOT,407 3 274 B, TZBCHU! presence and swors ay of October, A Net total sales Net dally average GEORGE Subscribed fn my fefore me this iat y M. B, HUNGAT (Seal) otary Public. — Th avery Kee it to D, recent London fog was no joke thoroughbred RBritisher conld | —— Anybody fn Nebraska willing to sacrl fice bimself on the altar of his country ns consul general at Samon at $4,000 a year? Don't all speak at once. As an item of eampaign expenses “ud vertising” scems to huve taken the place of liquid refreshment and clgars to satisfy the demands of the corrupt prac tices act. The latest passengors to arrive fron Panama say that the insurgents there have not molested American property. As the battleship lowa is lying in the harbor the reason is apparent A market house at Nineteenth Harney would be in a more central loea- tion than any other place yet mentioned ‘The only question is whether the city can acquire the ground at reasonable tigures, and An lowa judge has decided that a man has no right to break into his own home, What is a man to do if he cannot awl In through the window when his \\lln-‘; locks up the honse while he is out to the | | Senator Pettigrew of South Da kota is one of the stockholders in the newly formed liquid alr company. If he could only succeed in liquefying his political utterances there would fortune in it. be a When 1t cowes to pre-empting thoroughfares or alleys in widetrncks and switches the community of interest does not appear to be as barmoniouis as it is in consolidating big sailrond system public Omaha for Eastern farmers complain that rail- roads are mukiug too low rates for the transportation of grain and farm prod ucts. It would require considerable | argument ' to persuade the western farmer to see it in that light. Dean Allce Young of the lowa unl versity informs the young women of | that school that they are wasting too, much time on the young men. In self- protection some of the young men should volinteer to keep the dean busy a portion of her time. The delegates to the Prison congress have made a visit to the Leavenworth penitentiary. While th they were shown two conviets who had been thor- oughly reformed. The reformed con victs, however, afterwards escaped from the prison and refused to stop when the guards overhauled them. Sepator Buailey has stated in au iu- terview that it had not been decided what course the opposition senators will pursue dufing the coming session, As the decorum of the senate will not per- it of kicking down doors, the Texan must adopt new tacties different from those he pursued in the house p— Colomblan paper mouey Is now at such a discount that it requires $45 worth, face value, to purchase a United Ntates dollar. In the face of such condi tions it would seem that Colombians would be content to develop the great resources of thelr country instead of indulging in a revolution every year. ErmT— Commissioner-elect O'Keeffe declares that he proposes to introduce husiness methods in the management of the af fairs of the connty and will tuke pains to do away with sinecures and do nothing employes. This is commend- able. It we are‘to have a revision of the county pay roll one of Mr. 0'Keeffe's first efforts should be to bring about a consolidation of the auditor's office with | tion of public tr | satety | tul | tut | any | all | production of ENFORCE THE DEMAND, The republicans of Nebra<ka, through their last « made the lowing dec v platform + convention ration in of publ viola publi vil and_ school treasurer shall keep the taxpayer informed concerning the cdhdition nd disposition of the moneys entrusted to safekeeping by the publication monthly fAnancial statements showing amount of momey on hand, the name eachi bank In which it is depostted the amounts on deposit in each The election of the ticket decisive majority h interpr State Treasurer as a repudiation of the platform as it relates to the trensurer an endorsement of his conduct holding the informution demanded In taking this view Mr. Stucfer Interprets the meaning of the r publican victory and sentiment of the party victory menns that the braska have endorsed the platform and | want it strictly enforced. While the majority for the’state ticket Is greater than we had a right to anticipate under existing conditions, it is an open s that State Treasurer Stuefer's refusal to comply with the platform pledge hins lost the republicans thousands of votes The demand of the hour is for full publicity on the part of custodians of public funds, from state treasurer down to every district treasurer. It makes no difference whatever whether these treasurers are bonded by individ unl suretios or by guaranty compunies The plea that such publicity on the part of the stute treasurer, o far as it affects moneys in the permanent school fund, would expose to eriminal proseci tion, is contrary to common sense and common usage. ve Iy knows that these funds are deposited in banks, and, If the mere deposit constituted misnp propriation, the evidences are abundant to furnish grounds for prosecution in every county where the money is de posited. But every one also knows that no puh le officer will ever be convicted for teeting the publie. 1f the money is de interest in the name of the state for the benefit of the state, or without in t for safekeeping, no| criminal charge can be sustained, The itinl element of crime is eriminal intent, and no court or jury will punish officer whose honest intentions are proved by his acts On the other hand, the farming out of | public fuuds for private gain does con- | stitute a breach of trust and no party | can stand up against the demand that | sueh practices be stopped. The practice of depc ) pri aceount and the funds for private gain ng pub loaning den county we and every diatric elty age his of the ot with republican stafe and in with mis e misconstrues the The republican people of Ne ret school posited o | EUROPEAN SUGAR INDUSTRY. The beet sugar industry of Enrope is | feeling the effect of over-production. In | the great producing countries the yield of heet sugar this year will be the | largest even known and it is said that many in particular bids faiv to be %o overwhelmed with sugar that it ean nelther consume it nor sell it abroad ex pt at a ruinous sacrifice, Under the stimulus of bounties sugar heet pro duction has been rapidly developed, es pecially in nany, and the foreign id not keeping pace With the growth of the industry The consequence is that there is an im mense surplus of sugar in Europe, with a declining home demand and for the exporting countries an increasing compe tition from the eane sugar countries The immediate outlook for the Eu openn beet sugar industrd is therefore decidedly gloomy and fndeed the pron ise for the future cannot be regarded as in the least degree favorable i the cane sugar in Cuba shall proportions predicted and un beet sugar Industry it not difticult lome consumption de for attain th the Amer wontinue to grow, it s to 5 sugar industry. The situation to the ealling of a conference of sugar exporting countries to discuss the aboli tion of bounties. Such mference was held two three re sulting in u decision to continue pa ing export hounties, It is now seen that a restriction of the sugar beet area sxury and an abolition of Boun 1ld accomplish this, This condition abroad has an interest for American heet sugar producers and may ser to strengthen thelr a continua the protection r which the industry has grown to opment. or years ago, of T0 PROMOTE TRADE WITH CANADA A very earnest effort will he made this winter by the manufacourers and other bhusiness intere of New England to bring about more intimate trade vela tions with Canada They will ur iprocity ngement and a the campaign for this was taken yes terday, when representatives the Boston Chamber of Commerce and other commercial bodies called upon Presi- dent Roosevelt and presented the wat- ter to his attention. A few days ago Mr. Chavlton, a promi uent member of the Canadian House of nmons, in an address before the New York Chamber of Commerce presented statistics of the trade between the United States and Capada and urged that the retention of this trade is an im portant matter for the interests of the commercial classes of this country He sald: “Canada last year purchased from the United States nearly three times ax much as she sold to that country of products, aside from precious metals and foreign goods exported. 1t is to be hoped that the future relations between Canada and the United States will be of the most amicable character and that as near an approuch us possible to frec trade will be made. etits conferred upon the various sty of the Awerican union by untrammeled inter course would flow from the same con dition of things M extended to the Canadian provinces and territo) The American people are anxlous as the people of il ts The vast be quite as can be that of the county clerk. Such a con solidation wonld save the county at o lenst $2,000 4 year without in the least diminishing the eficlency of the work. for the maintenance of amfeable tions, but a matter of bhusiness must be | our jour tr | tremely dith { to the gen Las much shall | what must become of the European | led | demand | Ihe Counada and the question of reciproeity betwesn United States has iy for ligh disenssed It nmission more loss hef years wits v the joint where s cot the attitude isideration the Canadian gard to the Alaskan bonndary lias lad 1 oppor negotlations had sitions deemed waus hlocked hy of ori ment i ve Canada ol <hie issie tunifies proe seve o u for re ty it Been prepared 1o onr Doubt make pro hy gov 1o be fair and equitable given another oppor shall ask for it will ugain no purpose unless she ma ily lities ke it practicable to enter into a trade angement that will be really recipro 1L and not, as was the treaty of 1854 sided, practically all the ben going 1o Canada 1 retain less she will be if she but it tunity tei e her position, so as i it | i quite true the ( that it i< desivable to | anadinn trade, but likely to lose any of it even if there should ot be reciprocity treaty? Canada has o preferential tarift for Brit nanufactures of Sty per cent, yet de with the Dominfon has steadily grown. However, let Canada e given to understand that if she wants to talk trade relations we will listen that any proposition for reci procity, in order to receive serious con sideration, must be thoroughly recipro cul in charneter, are we ish but to NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR TRUSTS. No part of President Roosevelt's first message to cong will - command ater futerest than that which will ate to the Industrial combinations, It is that he will take strong grounds in favor of legislation by con- | ws to compel trusts and vast indus trinl combinations to change their atti tude toward the public. He desires, 8w Washington dispatel, « ._m.m e interest of investors b, quiring the combinations doing an in terstate business to n ke known facts as to the intrinsic value their curities, Publicity is to r stated to of be the watchword in DAILY ITHURSDAY, \1 If the amoun tod is more the actual co veturned certuiuly diversion of | building to tl wny [t sposed upon dollar approp of the Omahi federnl building must but that fact Justify | the expenditure of any part of this ap | propriation ou other building | Cem——— manufacturers and vosentatives have mads the 1Mlinois the it appropt it the unexpended surpln t 1 ty or 1 l sury in approprinted for on the no autho Inw nids onstruction or repai « Ihat congre f halt-million west other ling making ation for n n the win | conceded, cannot Chicago tion re e that prem corpora the plea assessment board | ! ore it decision of the court put effect it dri pital from the state, Franchised capital, like every other Kind of wealth <hould bear its just proportion of taxation and no but corporate wealth has | habit this cry every time ivone to make It bear it just tax burdens, T) taxing such forms of wenlth unjustly nor s there any valid excuse for exempting them from taxa tion. Money will be Invested wherever it can be assured of a profitable return and o tax board should allow itself to be stampeded . s s into will me of proposes <har the Do excuse for n aisi | is is The Real Estate exchange has heen © galed by an address on municipal gov ernment from the standpoint of Europe Irom the stundpoint of Europe our municipal government is doubtless very costly and inefticlent, but, most European citles of more than 100,000 population | were founded or chartered than a thousand ycars before white men set foot on the ground embraced within the limits of Omaha. 1t would be just interesting and profitless miake | comparison between Omaha church buildings from the standpoint of St Peter's cathedral at Rome or the monu mental enthedrals at Milan, Col masterpicee of 8ir Christophe St Paul’s cathedral at London, Stuggish Clrenlation, more connection with this subject, The president will vecommend that congress | pass alay that will gnarantee the pub [ e agamst frand and coable investors to [know exactly what they are buying when 1l purchase the industrial Mr. Roosevelt recommended legis of this kind to the leglslature of York when governor that | state, =0 that the proposition Is not new 1 with hiw. He s expeeted mike other recommendations as to the regu- | Iation of trusts. From what the presi- | dent has alie sabid on this subject it | well unde that he « not | fuvor legislation looking tw the sum mary suppression of the combinations. He believes that not only would it he ex Ault if not impossibl gislation, but that if effect ive the result might be finaneially and commercially disastrous, that the com binations could not be summarily ished without doing enormous injury al business of the country Regulation and publicity will therefor be the salient points in the president’s recommendations to cong In a notuble address before the Mer chants’ elub of Chicago a few days ugo My Jumes B. Dill, 8 New York lawyer who has had a great deal to do with in sporating trusts and probably knows jout them as any one in the xpressed the opinion that pub the best solution of the trust He sald the great question, which is national in extent and breadth, is not how combinations may be averted, they may be utilized and con- | the public good. He urged assurance of any uni of procedure and regulation of Ations on the part of the states msequently there must he gislation for the regulation and the combinations. How far Lthis cun be carvied without overstep- ping the constitutional power of con gress is another perplexing question, It 18 not surprising to learn that Presi- { dent Roosevelt has been urged to ignor trust question, even members of cabinet, it suld, having given such ady The president, howeve: has too clear and strong a conception of the importance of the subject to give lieed to such counsel. He also knows that the public expects him to discuss the trusts and he moreover undestands that he cannot creditably ignore the questic The country may confidently look for an intelligent and straightfor ward treatment of this subject in the president’s message, ¥ New he was of N is estood s to en » such country, i Ncity problem. how trotled for s is 1o na tional | control of The republican machine is still held responsible for every vagabond and seamp who enters the politieal avena, The prosecution of Frank Hromadtko, | who deserted his wife and is charged with confidencing her out of $1,200, has elicited the following comment from the World-Herald: Hromadtko has been prominent for years in the workings of the local republican machine and wae once a candidate for the legislative nomination, As a matter of fact, the republican ma chine had uo to do with Hromadtko than it had with Pat Crowe. He was a candidate for the legislature last year, but was most vigorously op posed and unceremoniously turned down by the republican ovganization in the epublican primaries and has taken no active part in politics since more I ago congress appropriated )0,000 for the completion of the west wing of the federal building at Omaha This appropriation seemed excossive to those familinr with the cost of the cou struction of fireproof buildings, The main building, which covers twice the ground avea and includes the Sixteenth street entrance and the tower, had cost less than $800,000, and now it trans pives that only $135,000 remains for the completion of the west wing, the hal ance having, it is said, been diverted for the enlargement and lmprovement of other bulldings. If this is true, an ex planation will be in order on the part of the supervising architect of the treas ury. When an appropriation s made treated and dealt with on strictly busi pess priuciples, regurdless of sentiment for a public bullding it is presumed to | in the republican Roston Globe 3,000 republican gain In Nebrask indicate that the Commone much local circulation Peerless in o Fog | That §: | this year doesn't may v hay Post securely Mr. Gorman ap- | ratie presiden- | his back. | Washington Nebraska | olumn the only demo ibillty with his sta D Lurge. New ™ Now anchored pears to be tial po at o York arter has been in prison for suffering the just punishment for his cr But hix accomplices and fe are still large. This grievous scandal Way Hack and St Chicago Chronlcl that the result state clections will Tribune. Captain long e i erates at s Go Dowa, It is conc locul and forced retirement Arkansas ,statesma of the late | include the | of Senator Joues, the | n, from the chairman- ship of the democratic national committeo. The democrats of the fon will inelst that the office of national leader shall be filled by some distingnished leader of one of the calightened states Kick and Haltimore It the people of Great to their dogged determination to conquer the Boers, they can induige in the dog- gedness only as a luxury to be paid for at | full value. In the first enthusiasm of the | war fever patriotiem stimulated 1 | very breast. Now it is confronted with | the more serious wear and tear of long | and heavy taxes. Yet it is evident that | the national dctermination will stand a | heavy strain ny the BilL. American | Britain still hold | was Pro 0 Rico. | Philadelphi | Porto Rico is improving. The | the month of October | of $400,000 Trade in value of exports for showed an incres there is a corresponding increase ports, indicating ly advance In purchasing power of the population ix great market assured u why Porto Rico should a higher degree of prosperity than any other of the West Indies It the industry of its people shall be equal to their opportunity. Make Way for er Girls, New and im the | With there in a ste access o o 15 1o attain to rea 1 York Tribun A messenger company in a western city, being dissatisfied with the loitering ways of its young Mercuries, has decided to em- ploy youthful Camillas for its day service, expecting more rapid transit with the mes- sages when carried by lassies instead of laddies, The results of this singular ex- periment will be looked for with attention, but to the average possessor of rugged com- mon sense the chances of lasting success with a force of young girls do not appear encouraging. ¥ RSONA NOTES, lost 12,000 votes because that democrats rendered void their stralght ticket by throwing a harpoon at van Wyck. It was a sore day for Tam many when it coddled the 1ce man Admiral Schiey had one brother killed fn Corea and another brother was a gallant soldier in the confederate army. Two of the Schleys have been killed in the Philip pines—one a nephew and the other a close relative Prof. Tammany number of Loefler the bacteriologlst who ha done s0 much in the study of diphtheria, announces rather guardedly his probable dlscovery that cancer may be alleviated it not eradicated by inoculating the patient with malaria. ew York gamblers are said to have as- sisted in Tammany's eat and to he pleased at the result, because, while they like police protection, they were forced to pay 60 much for it under Devery that nearly all their profits were eaten up. €. J. Jones, who recently died in Salina, Kan, was known as “Buffalo” Jones through his sympathy with the lower ani mals, He succeeded in perfectly taming « number of wild birds and he domesticated several buffaloes, using them for agricul- tural purposes The old buillding in Buffalo wherein Grover Cleveland studied law and set up the pins which made him sheriff of Erie county and started him on the road to the White House, g torn down to make | way for a modern structure. The famous roost of unsuspected greatness ceased to bo a Mecca for democratic pilgrims when Grover shed his halo along in 1893 Estimates of the cost of the buildings of the 8t. Louis fair, made by Isaac 8. Taylor, director of works, amount to $6,750,000. | This includes all thg main buildings, eleven in number, and the government bullding. These buildings will cover 126.52 ucres of ground and will require the em- ployment of 8000 men of all classes to is be applied exclusiVely to that structure. / i build them withio tbe time limit, | region )\ h\lIKI l( I!i()l. Beef and the Land Laws Rocky Me which expensiy nine ma 1 condition demand for st popul The west wage due he rown with tnere decreased as made v which and fattened be appealed A commigsion be asked. This much A sen procedire land laws of the nation to the '40s of the last ntively applicable e irrigation very conditi not for ficially Their territorie razing area b ern homesteade he land A once roamed 1o oft to and pasture on w a the pert least That the date back are ot Congress I8 to appointment of sistance with ex which century, the arid whe fact patent te for climati sippi and must he ing crops and west the been attended with no little infustice. Water I8 necessary I8 neces were ¢ ik of the hey t cion 1 framed Mis water the grow in the st Missour a where appli applic ot ar for has hardship and both fo the, THREE CHICAGO DOCTORS { Failed to Do for Miss Mabelle L. LaMonte What Was Accom- plished by Lydia E. Pinkham's fegetable Compound. W News | but no far Hencs | Agonism between farmers and The demand, therefore, that | pin ! considered legis S A proper oue shall be A natural ant ockmen ongress st With we “DEar Mus Piskman:—1 was in av awful state for nearly three years with a complication of female troubles which three physiciams called by d ferent names, but the pains were all the same. | dreaded the time of my ation | lone” Shall the lands | That would be lt- | Shall they are very many | Shall the land« | government system of | That the plan fa- | In the meantime, unde might not be obj long of the public | always on the ex when such lands \ are termi overlooked worked in the pro old range days t the ary mew conditions have fully asserted themselves, They Iy cannot until storage reservoirs add | acr the productive area | of irrigated lands. Then one acre will rear nd fatten stock But what coded 1o the ¢ han disaster grazfng? Th to such n policy by olr News. ictions, | ol por grazing, bu that irrigat ot m s bein n be abject fons be redeemed ed by the prope tionable lands for v condition redeemed nated ¥ The ha iction not be a change 2 of beef are gone s not prod miltion yot | presen more than ten better do now, ultivation of the soil and the growing of grades cattle. Henco the contest in this region has heen for the possession of water, The taking up of the water frontage of a single m will add thousands of acres to the arable areas, but at the same time render nds of acres of grazing land valy If it falls into the possession of man, the grazing rights are and this means small and constant care, pasturing and fattening within fenced lmits. If a beef famine | impending it 18 to be regarded as only in cidental to tramsitional conditions. The fdea that the United States cannot under the new conditions forcshadowed produce enough beef both for the home and export demand need not for a moment be entertained. cattle main- BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, There is not the slightest reason why land 1u this section of the state should not be come Just as valuable as land In northern lowa and couthern and western Minnesota The climate and soll are almost identical South Dakota fs not quite as heavily tim- red and has not quite as many streams | but otherwise It is the counterpart of the states 1 mention It inevitable that continge to increase, for the country 1s opening up rapidly. You see, it is the old story of the population moving westward The Illinois farmer and land investor is selling hls property for $100 an acre and going over to lown and Minnesota buying for $60 and $65, knowing that lund will be higher there €oon. This drives the lowa and Minnesota people to South Dakota, where they buy at from $23 to $40, expect- ing to eell at about twice that figure in & few yoars. Just now prices are advancing littlo faster in South Daketa than in lowa and Minnesota, because the country s newer “The catile industry in South Dakota has | changed somewhat during the last few years, Many cattlemen arve now ‘feeders. lostead of allowing thelr stock to get fat grazing, they raise corn, fatten the cattle during the winter and ship to the Chicago market in the spring. The sheep industry is much more extensive than bere tofore, and is destined o become a facter in the state. The dry climate Is just the f People and § Antional « Senator Francis E. W was in Washington the the prospect o'er’’ ing of congr palms with the p prosperity lay fo chings teoat (he itn on of Wyoming other day “viewing preliminary to the meet and took timo to sident. He also pipe the benefit of tho Wi ington Post. “Politically,” he said, “there nothing stirring in Wyoming just at present. This ls an off year with us and politics s but slightly Indus- trial conditions in Wyoming are very isfactory. The people are reaping the ben efit of good crops and the generally perous conditions and talking mot at all The legislaturo does not meet until one year from this winter and it Is impossible tell whether any particularly important aue will come up for consideration 1 suppose there will bo’ further legislation regarding irrigation, as that s the princt- pal question have deal with. At 1 Wyoming has the bes irvigation legislation of any of the western st This is a big question, but our law- result that the people are now assured the ald the state government can glve. Wyoming i young state and fts irrigation is not as extensive as the irrign tion in Californfa, Colorado and other com 18 land values will h s discussed sat helieve makers the MARELLE L. LAMONTE. monthly periods for it meant a couple of days in bed in awful agony. I final- 1y made up my mind that the good doctors were guessing : and hearing from different friends such ‘nml re- ports of Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg- etable Compound, I tried that. bless the day 1 did, for it was the dawning of a new life for me. I used five bottles before I was cured, but when they were taken I was a well woman once more. Your Compound is certainly wonderful. Several of my friends have used it since, and nothing but the best do I ever hear from its use.” — Yours, MABELLE L. LAMoxTs, 200 E. 31st Chic 111.—g3000 Jorfeit If above testimonial is nol ' ulne. If Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound could cure Miss LaMonte—why not you? Try it Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo- men free. Address, Lynn, Mass. MIRTHFU Star one “My Ittle fathor s & Washington gIFl “Whats broker," sald yours?" CH answere ne of the peopls who get broke,* the other 1 s ceritla Philadelphia Press: This music 9 ol spenks of the soprana’s high notes of warmth.” 1Is that correct? Juck -Why not? They come ter, you know upper regis. hicago Post gle?" axked the person who to ask quest It “Are you marrled or sin- ever hesitites man with munitie De. One of the big industrial developments in Wyoming is oil ently several fine strikes have been made and it is my pres diction that before long we will take rank with the foremost in the production of oil The & obstacle heretofore has been a lack of transportation facilitles, but this will soon be removed. Railway building in Wyoming has been very extensive the past year and will be even more so In the year or two years to come. The oll belt extends from the northeast to the south- west corner of the state. Both lubricating and illuminating oil have been discovered but within a few years it wil thing for sheep, and thousands are being raised. Where sheep and cattle graze over | the same territory there s frequently trouble, as the sheep cut the grass off so | #hort the roots are sometimes injured.” NEW YORK'S BIG E | Exceptionally Strong Men Dominant | e and Natlonal Affairs. Philadelphia TLedger. ever before in all its history has the state of New York filled so large & place in the politics of the nation as it does today. | ‘ This I the result in part of accident, but | also the w o of (he Unfon L happen 1o b Philids didn't v a hand Hving in."* Why phia Press: Dasty Roa and got i #0 up to that big house Why, I started ter, but Tookin' guy gimme a tip nof ter Turn frum yver present path,” sez o dogs Washington St Don't forget the willing worker, “that money talks “Yes, ' unswered Senator Sorghum, a lit- | tle glumly, “but 1 can’t help wishing that | you boys would select another phonograph vccastonally.” suld Philadelphla Press very pretty,” she said disappointmient, *‘but small." “Hut, my d replled the foxy “The earrings ar with just a_tinge of the stones are very nr, mar) | farmer | plaint will be of no avail The popularity of the rural free deivery system is well illustrated by the fact that there are 12,000 applications for routes now on file with the department. They are from il parts of the country and show that the appreciate the facllities affordod for getting thelr mail. The countr however, are kicking. They the farmers do not bave for their mail woeful extent. Thelr com however, for the continue its policy them storekeepers, say that since come to town fallen off to depariment intends to of giving the dwellers in the country good postal service as possible than 6,000 carriers are employed in the rural delivery system, and this number will be doubled within two years. A plan is afoot to place them under civil service. During | Just closed the carriers in the | districts traveled 147,720 miles The we per carrier and one-half miles as the country every day twenty-four year aver Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister, is ot sulk- ing and “lopfing on his job™ because of the s that his government s about to recall him. With the utmost good nature, says a Washington letter, he proceeds with his business and seems to take as much interest in his duties as though he had a life-long grip on the embassy. He was at the State department the other day fiitting from one office to another, as cheerful as ever, and one of the officials sald in an aggrieved tone: “Why, Mr. Wu, you act as though you were enjoying the prospect leaving Washington. 1 thought you liked it here.” The Chinese minister's shrewd eyes twinkled as he replied, with almost an American twang, “Wnat's the use of worry ing? 1v's all in a lifetime. Wu's philosophical surrender to the ex- igencies of politics s a revelation to Wash- ington observers. They have been aceus tomed to witnessing terrific struggles when a man is called upon fo give up a public joh, Representative Landis of Indiana faced an ordeal when he visited the White House one morning last week which would hav caused most men to feel queer. Four years ago when President Roosevelt was slated for the position of assistant secrelary the navy published in his Indiana newspaper. a screaming assault upon what he termed Roosevelt's appetite for office notwithstanding his alleged desire to be considered & clvil service reformer, The assault was so viclous that it attracted widespread attention After Colonel Roosevelt became dent Landis’ friends fn Indiana assured him that he would not dare to enter the White House when he came to Washington. The Hoosler representative arrived at the na- tional capital last and he was one of the first visitors to call at the White House the next morning. The president recog nized him instantly You are the Landis who once published an editorial criticism of me,” he exclaime “Yes," said Landis, looking somewhat urbed t was all right, Landis," sald the presi dent, with & good-natured smile. “It proved to me that you are a man of ideas. 1 like men who have ideas, and mey with poor ideas are better than men with no ldeas Come and see me often This was said loud enough for in the outer corridor hear came out of the utive happily and triumphantly presi week everybody and Landls office smiling Bartlett Tripp of Yankton D., while in Washington last managed 1o give his bome state a breezy advertisement Xt to pure ding matter,” gratis nd vaiues in eastern and southern South Dakota have just about doubled in the la year,” said Mr. Tripp Washington t man. “Farms which used to be con sidered of comparatively liitle value are ow bought whenever opporiumity offer has | Mors | of | 1 part to the fact that the republican party, now dominant in the state, has de- veloped some exceptionally strong men and has pushed them to the front. The assassi- = Boston nation of McKinley has made Roosevelt | {ieht {1 president. The promotion of Roosevelt that vou have made way for Odell, who, as governor, is | board vet giving the state a very strong administra- =00 tion. The defeat of Tammany is to put Seth Low in the mayor's chair. Here are threa New Yorkers of the highest type of pub men, clean, able, independent, pro- gressive, all three of pational and two of them of international reputation, serving president, governor and mayor, a triple ombination hard to beat If Roosevelt were not already president, both Odell and Low might press him hard in the next con- test for the presidential office. Another | New Yorker, Elihu Root, is recoguized as | perhaps the strongest man intellectually in | | the cabinet. Another distinguished New York Joseph H, Choate, 1s ambassador to England, while General Porter, also of that state, is ambassador 1o France. Sereno E. Py e of N York is chairman of the ways and means committee and lead of | the house. In the senate the state is repre- | sented by one of the most popular orators {in the couniry, Chauncey M. Depew, and also by Thomas €. Platt, who, while out of | place i that hody, is, nevertheless, one of | the half dozen most powerful political lead- e1s in the United States, and a man of re« markable career. Roosevelt, Odell, Low, Platt, Depew, Choate, Porter, Root-—hers are eight men holding foremost positions in the public life of the nation, and the product of one state, and of one political organization within that state. It may be that one reason why the democratic party is now so completely out of power in New York is that it is without the lead- ership to cope with these men. It Is a significant fact that, although Tammany has held control of the city of New York for four years, it has not In that time de. veloped a single public man who has raised bimself very far above the low medlocrity, to sny nothing of the low political morality of Tami y achlevement would be all of your curs.” “If they were larger they out of proportion to the siz Transeript: Harry—You have to say that this s the most heau- e you cver visited; but 1 not not paid anything for your 1 know that. That's the beauty PAJAMAS FOR THE ARMY. “Inspector General Breckinridgo, press dispatch, “advocates su Koldters With piagamin and: (hink will improve the health of the nuts fer soldiers who useter dub around Assimilatin’ tack, A-turnin’ In at on the gr Without a bloomin’ nightle to his back, To sce the care they're takin' of his clous health these days: Providin' him with lixuries an® his joys, this_ secms like thelr funny plays The fxsue of pujan saye @ Diying the s to do so men." IU's sort o alkalt an’ pork en' beans an’ taps with jest his blankets censorin’ But ! the beatin‘est of all 1% to the boys. with uster an' with Cre We made our evenin’ toflet without pullin® off our boots; got our faces sunburned and we cers Harney an' with We 5 . unwashed galoots. But now we' Civilized an’ have to art our halr Aniso the mornin’ don't clatm ixn't Sull none of to weur Pajamas when the tooth brush, which I right us anticipated that we'd get bugle called at night, Inspector weral Breckinridge thing that we know Wil give us vi‘let water an® et We'll be the swoetest ever faced a foe When he gets through reformin' be the one thing that ymi riable as th the first a manfeurin® lot o' ducks that us, yeu s we've wanted—to night-— elcome buddin® flow'ra In v picture, If you're good at it, vonder and 'dellght n they serve out our pajamas some fino Cold Days his of h well Tt's a man's all times, and he rarely hjects to doing so at smallest possible cost. Create thot vy apparel, ambition to look stores can make him look well for less money than we charge. We make him “look well Some longer. It's got to be in the material and make, The say the same thing, but they ave several flights higher up than we are-—in price, tailors “NO CLOTHINC FITS LIKE OURS” Browning-[qhe 5~ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers, Wilcox, Manager. R. S.