Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1903, Page 6

BEE THE UMAHA DAIJX E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. —— PUBLISHED WVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Bee (without Sunday), Qne Year Daily Be. y, One Year. Year .00 0 200 w0 160 10 Bunday F Baturday lice, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bée (without Sunday), per copy... 2 Dally Bee (without Bupaay), per week. .12 Daily Bee (Inciuding Snday), per week.l Bunday Bee, per cop : Evening Bee (without Sunday). per week bc enlug Bec (inciuding Sunday), per week o100 Complaints of Irreguiarities in delivery should be addressed to City, Circulation De- partment. 2 OFFICES, OmaRa—The Bee Buildinj Couth Ompnacity Hall Butiding) Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Bfreet. Chicago—16# Unity! Bullding. New York—2128 Park Row Building. Washington—l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. v Communications relating to news and ed- ttorial_ matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Depaftment. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, se: George B. Tuschuck, secretary of Fhe Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, eays that the actual number of full and _coi lete coples of The Dally, Morning fog “and Bunday Bee yrlmed during month of December, 1002, was as follows: 11 18, 19. ESURNEEREREE Total Less unsold and returned coples t total sales ... Net average sales GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. ibed in my presence and sworn to betore me this Sist day of December, A, D. 1902, . 'B._HUNGA'TE (Seal) Notary Public. No more bull fights in Nebraska under gubernatorial patronage for at least two years. It this keeps up, stealing coal will soon constitute grand larceny instead of petit larceny. { 8t. Jackson's day. without a speech from Willlam J. Bryan {s an anomaly on the calendar. With so many lawyers In town, Omaha people should haye no difficulty in breaking into court. Omaha cannot be made a grain mar- ket except by a long pull, a strong pul} and a pull all together. y Business has again taken the place of sentiment in the executive devartment of Nebraska's state government. ——— Perhaps congress might relleve the pressure a trifle by setting apart one day each week for the Introduction of anti-trust bjlls, —— South Omaha charter committeemen are at sixes and sevens on some of the most important subjects of charter re- vision. Get together. e Having made known his yearning for a constitutional party, our friend of the iridescent whiskers, J. Hamilton Lewis, can relapse once more into temporary eclipse. " em—— Can anyone tell us why the state mili- tia of Nebraska should be enlarged un- less it be to give a larger command to Field Marshal John N. Baldwin of the Union Pacific corps? L ___J The Colorado legislature appears to be doing its best to furnish another object lesson to support the demand for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. S— Both gubernatorial messages put in a word for an appropriation for Ne- braska's participation In the Loulsiana Purchase exposition at St. Louis. This Is one of the very few points on which the two executives agree. mpye—— The announcement that Charles M. Schwab will resume active discharge of his duties as president of the steel trust corporation in March is recelved with equanimity in the business world. Mr. Schwab would be perfectly safe in pro- longing his vacation indefinitely so far as the interests of American industry are concerne: When members of the senate oppose free coal It should be understood that they are not opposed to recelving thelr supply of fuel without an accompanying THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903. GUVYERNOR MICKEY'S MESSAGE. Goverpor Mickey's inangural message like nearly all inatigurals, s compara- tively brief and embodies merely an outline of his views on a few of the principal toples that will engross the at- tention of the legisiature. The g or strikes the keynote for his administration by declaring in favor of striet economy without parsimony. In other words, he commits himself in advance to a policy that will antagonize all réckless extravagance and wasteful ness, while at the same time favoring | liberal pay for faithful and efficient pub- | lie servic Governor Micke, tion in favor of bailed with satisfaction by all the ta payers of the state. The governor very pointedly characterizes the ridiculously low grand assessment roll of Nebraska's wealth as a mere financial shadow and places himself squarely on record for full value assessments and an amend- ment of existing laws that will bring about the assessment of all personal and real property and all franchises at their true valye, supplemented by more strin- gent provisions for the more effective collection of taxes. With this end In view, he recommends that the powers and dutles of the State Board of Equal- ization be broadened so that it shall have ample authority to raise and lower assessments for state purposes in har- mony with the full valuation plan. and that county boards be given such addi- tional authority as will enablé them to carry out effectively the letter and spirit of the constitution that contemplates uniformity of taxation. Emphasizing these sound and practical views fur- ther, the governor calls upon the legisla- ture for immediate action so that the revised revenue laws may be in opera- tion In time for the assessment of 1903. Governor Mickey’s conclusions re'a- tive to the crying .need for constitu- tional revision reflect the general senti- ment of thoughtful people. Thé con- sensus of public opifion is that the de- plorable condition of the state’s finances is due chlefly to the defects of our stralght jacket constitution and that the embarrassment under which the state has for years been laboring in the judi- cial and executive departments can only be remedied by changes in the frame- work of our organic law. The shortest road to constitutional revision 1s through amendments submitted by the legislature, and, while Governor Mickey does not say he opposes the calling of a convention, he plainly shows his prefer- ence for the speediest action. While The Bee does not fully concur with the governor in some of his minor recommendations, it can cheerfully com- mend the message as a conscientious presentation of the paramount Issues with which the legislature must grapple. We feel sure the people of Nebraska will welcome to the executive office a man who thus shows his appreclation of the responsibilities that rest upon him, THE VALEDICTORY OF SAVAGE. he formal address composed by Robert J. Clancéy and delivered by Ezra P. Savage to the Nebraska legis- lature in joint convention assembled is a comprehensive conglomerate, sound and commendable in some particulars and full of visionary reforms and freaks in others. i Having failed to meet the emergency that confronted the state with regard to the Investment of the permanent school fund by calling a special session last summer to submit amendments to the constitution that would enable the state to reform its finances and fund its float- ing debt, the retiring governor now transmits this paramount issue to a con- stitutional convention which could not possibly supply the remedy before 1907. ‘While it is a plece of presumption on his part to instruct the constitutional convention to be called by the legisla- ture in 1905 in its duties, the Custer county statesman pronounces in favor of a radical recast of the executive de- partment, including the abolition of the office of auditor and commissioner of publie lands, and the imposition of their dutles upon the governor, treasurer and secretary of state. It would have been just as rational to recommend that the executive department shall be vested in a Pooh Bah under the title of governor, who is to be the whole thing in the state house surrounded by a retinue of lver- fed servants and understrappers. Another radical change proposed by the Olancey-Savage valedictory 1s that the legislators shall: be . elected .every 's unequivocal posl- tax reform will be cludes exacting and taxpayers and indifferent and ultra lenfent with levied on the railroad property, not one dol lar of which remains unpaid, others who advocate the adjustme discrepancy between our e receipts; not by requiring the payment of taxes by all, but by requiring corporate in- terests greater amount. the very face of this proposition this utterance. lieve from it that the rallroads of Ne- braska pressed, when in fact they are paying less than one-half of the proportion of taxes imposed on all other classes of property preme court clerk from a fee office to a fixed sa and greater encouragement of irrigation. ary, more efficient oil inspection The Clancey-Savage the valedictory in- recommendation of a new system of supervision of the Introduc tion of bills in the legislature, the open door for municipal franchis tion of capital punishment, which has been threshed over and the aboll ver dgain by previous legislatures Absolutely indefensible 18 the attempt of the outgoing executive to befog and confuse the the following declaration: railrond taxation fssue by . 1t is manifestly wrong for the stato to be arbitrary with ono class of others. 1 have in mind the taxes t there are t of the penditures and to contribute a corfespondingly Injustice 18 written across Infamy is written across the face of One would actually be- had been overtaxed and op- and are assessed at less than 1 per cent on the value of thelr property in Omaha, while all other taxable property is as- sessed at 100 per « South Omaha and Lincoln, nt. As a whole, the Clancey-Savage vale- dictory can be filed away for future ref- erence as a fale sample of maudlin mediocrity playing at statecraft. DUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL The statutes clea define the duty of the attorney gemeral of the United States, der which congress on the part of that offical beyond that which is prescribed by law. A very in- teresting discu accurred In the senate a few days ago, called out by a resolution directing that the attorney general transmit to the senate the evidence presented by the pelitioner in regard to the alleged con- spiracy of the anthracite coal railroads. but there are circumstances un- can direct action fon in regard to this The republican contention was that the attorney general must be presumed to be properly performing his duties and that it would be a serlous mistake to require him to make public evidence which would inform the defendants of what was being done by the judicial authorities of democratic demand that such evidence should be transmitted to the senate was combatted on the ground that the effect would be to practically tie the hands of the attorney general and prpbably prevent him course he had in view. Republican sen- ators took the position that the officlals of the Department of Justjce should be allowed to go on In the Investigation of the alleged conspiracy or combina- tion without hindrance or interference, as the only way in which to arrive at the facts and probe the matter to the bottom. the part of these senators to check in- vestigation. pressed the hope that the attorney gen- eral would diligently prosecute inquiry as to the charged against the anthracite coal rail- road companies. was such a disclosure, called for by the resolution, as would have given the alleged combination the very informa- tlon which it is desirable to withhold from Spooner, “What the public is interested in, interested in, and interested In, is in determining, through the whether this conspiracy exists or not, and in dissolving and destroying it if it exists.” the government. The carrying out fully the There was no disposition on On the contrary they ex- conspiracy or combination What they opposed 1t. As was said by Senator and what the attorney general is what the senate Is attorney general's investigation, There is no question as to the right of congress to call upon any official of the government for information which that body may deem necessary in the interest of legislation, Lut In a case such as that referred to it is manifestly unwise for congress to ask information until certain that investigation has been completed and that no injury can result to the government's case from a disclo- sure of the evidence obtained. safer plan 18 to assume that In all such matters the judicial officers are faith- tully performing their duty. The The street railway company could confer a great boon on strangers visit- ing in Omaha by maintalning a uni- four years instead of every two years, which would no doubt effect a saving in varfous ways, especlally In the matter formed employe at the rallway stations at least during the period.of greatest travel to direct people to the cars that will take them to their desired destina- blll, but that they merely oppose the abolition of the duty on imported coal. It is not to be presumed that the sen- atorial solons would order the driver to cart back a load of anthracite sent to them with the compliments of the coal dealer. — President Castro has finally accepted for the Venezuelan government the arbitration propesition without con- ditions respecting the blockade. Pres!- dent Castro has been very much in the position of the stage coach passenger with his hands up at the point of a revolver reinforcing - the demand to “Shell out.” The condition that the revolver be first polnted the other way has been reluctantly waived. Ex-Governor Willlam J. Stone will succeed Senator Vest as the representa- tive of Missourl in the upper house of congress. Mr. Stone is one of the few gemocrats whose steadfast loyalty to Nr. Bryan has found its reward. He was practically second in both Bryanite campaigns and his entrance Into the senate will be eo- incident with the retirement of Senator Joues of Arkansas, who alone outranked biw in the Bryanite councils, in command of refurnishing the halls of legislation and the printing of legislative manuals and other et ceteras, and would more- over enable the rallroads to effect a sav- ing by erntlng pasteboards good on their main lines and branches for four years instead of twelve months. The sound and commendable features of the Clancey-Savage valedictory are the specific recommendations for the maintenance of the varlous state insti- tutions and the revision of estimates submitted by heads of these institutions to conform to their actual needs. The information supplied the legislature in this regard is Invaluable and should guide It In formulating appropriation bills. = Secretary Clancey’s conclusions em- phasized through Qovernor Savage are also sound regarding the need of uni- form assessments based on actual value, the inauguration of clvil service methods in varlous state institutions, the management of the Home for the Friendless by a nonpartisan board of women, the employment of conviets by the state in place of leasing their labor to contractors, specific appropriation for the maintenance of the State university in place of the Indefinite mill tax, the abolition of the supreme court commis- slon and Increase in the number of ‘su- preme judges, changing the office of su- tions. inconvenience is imposed upon visitors from out of town for lack of this assist- ance. lice force this neéd could be supplied by detalling an officer to this duty, but in view that the company itself is alone In posi- tion to provide for the case. Every day great confusion and If we maintained a sufficient po- of ex ng conditions It seems In insisting that the compromise land- leasing bill permit the leasing of thirty sections of government land to each cattle grower the cattlemen doubtless are figuring o trouble of increasing their holdings by additional leases in more than one name. Unless the law provides against the transfer of leases and subleasing it will make no difference what limit is set on the amount of land covered by each lease contract. saving themselves the B of the Go Philadelphia Press. As much as $18 and $20 & ton is being asked for coal I New England. The coal that sells at that price would fur- nish & g9od proft if sold for §6. Junkets Preferred to Duty. Minneapolis Journal. Although this trust question ought to be the most important thing before congress, it appears that the house judiclary commit- tee, before which committee the trust leg lation must pass, has been invited and at present seems likely to go in a body on & Junketing tour to Texas to celebrate the in- auguration of a member of the committee who has been elected governor of that state. A Prophet W H Washington Post. 1t looks as it the appearance of Mr Bryan on the scene might hurry the Mexi- cans on toward the gold basie. They den't take kindly to a prophet whose home ter- minal facilities are so faulty. When the Home Ox Gored. Chicago News. yme of the coal roads which were loudly protesting last fall that the federal govern- meht has abundant authority to send troops 1nto a state, whether they were asked for or not, wifl now reverse themselves long enough to demonstrate that*the same gove nment has no right to interfere in the conduct of commerce between one state and another. Reforms in Foot Ball. New York Tribune. The great majority of broad-minded and loyal admirers of college foot ball would like to see fewer mass plays and more open work, more finesse and strategy, more trials for goal from off in the fields, more long range kicke and punts, more deft es- capes from tackles, more dazzling runs. Mass plays too often smack of mere brute force. False Cries of Demagognes. Indianapqlis Journal, N8t more than four years ago a cry was raised that the tinplate trust had not only put up the price to an outrageous figure, but had contrel of all the factories manu- facturing the machinery for its productien. Somehow a number of capitalists have got machinery and are making large quantities of plate, the price of which they have cut to $3.60 a box—a lower price than was paid during the years when an English monopoly supplied the American market. Strenuosity in the Alr. Baltimore American. Some of the steamship people object to the proposed plan of Marconi to flash news bulletins dally to steamers on the ocean. They protest that ome great object of sea trips—the entire rest from the rush and bustle of the outside world—will be da- feated by this intrusion of the strenuous upon the hygienic indolence of ocean pas- senger life and that nerves will have no respite. Still, it seems useless to try to get rid of the modern strenuosity of life, for, llke wireless telegraphy, it is in the afr, A Pretty Lively Issue. Springfleld Republican, ™ Municipal ownership is getting to be a pretty live fssue, as was shown fn Brooklyn the other day when a grand fury, sitting upon the matter of adequate transit facilities, coupled with its condemnation of the present system a recommendation in favor of municipal ownership of the street raflways. Now the New York Re- form club, a very conservative body, fs planning & natfona! convention, to be held in New York in February to consider the question of public franchises and public ownership. Tt {s the purpose particulamy to get together and hear from men who have practical acquaintance with munfcl- pal experiments in the ownership line. FEVER OF SPECULATION. “Entire Capital of Union Pacific Sold Five Times Over.” New York World. The sales pf shares on the New York Stock exchange in 1902 show & decline from the fever year which preceded it—in round numbers frofn 247,000,000 shares to 175,000,000. * The ‘“record month” of April saw 26,845,014 shafes disposed of, agalnst 42,148,408 in Apri; 1901, and 24,257,900 in January, 1899, former high-water marks. Yot the decline does not Indicate that people have- quit gambling. Of twenty- nine “active” stocks 96,000,000 shares were s0ld; of Union Pacific alone 10,500,000 shares changed hands; the entire capital of the road was thus sold five times over in New York alone. The par value of stocks sold came to the almost {nconcetvable total of $17,600,000,000. This is $5,000 for every man, woman and child in the city; It is four billions greater than the combined-revenue and expenditure of every nation on the earth; it is nearly eight times the whole foreign commerce of the United States for 1901; it s nearly five times the assessed valuation of New York. And the total sales In a single exchange, excluding such Important stocks as Standard Ofl, all bank stocks, many “industrials” and all bonds, were vastly greater than the total wealth, In every form, of the city and of all Its citizens. How general must be the fever of specu- lation when such a stupendous total of “legitimate transactions” in stocks alone can be recorded In n single year! BRAVE ADMIRAL CERVERA. Reported Promotion of the Sturdy 014 Spanish Hero. New York Tribung. The intelligence that Admiral Cervera has been appointed chief of staff of the Spanish navy will cause a sincere feeling of gratification throughout the United States. Ordinarily a similar promotion in the military service of a forelgn eountry in time of peace excites only a languld inter- est elsewhere, except, perbaps, in profes slonal circles; but the case of Admiral Cer- vera is peculiar. We feel sure that he is still regarded in this country with a sym- pathetic interest, to which he is well en- titled, not Werely in remembrance of the tragedy in which he played an honorable though a melancholy part, but also because he largely contributed to a restoration of amicable relations between Spain and the United States, or rather, perhaps, of & re- ciprocal good feeling which facilitated gov- ernmental negotiations between the two countries, and will, we hope, make thelr official intercourse permanently agreeable. In his desperate exit under orders from the harbor of Santiago, aboard the Inferior vessel, to which he had transterred his flag with full kiowledge that he was sacrificing fome chances of personal escape, Admiral Cervera was so gallant a figure, and his demeanor in the hour of utter defeat was so fine, that every American was immediately consclous of increased respect for the race to which he belonged. If that had been all it might have been emough to produce a favorable effect upon the subsequent course of events. But that was enly the beginnin, of the service which he rendered. As a prisoner of war he was 8o free from bitter- ness of spirit, so appreciative of evory cour- tesy which he received, and so modest and sane when he found himeelf the object of a sudden admiration which did not iavariably express itself In judicious ways, that he may be said to have been the means of re- creating an atmosphbere of international kindliness in which ancient sentiments of triendship were soon revived. If, therefore, as we believe the fact to be, few resentments survive among a high spirited people after a war of conquest, and a better understanding exists between Spaln and the United States than had prevallea for mguy years before the outbreak of hos- tilities, Admiral Cesvera must be recognized as an influential factor in the establishment of these bappy felations, and there is sure to be much satistaction here, where he is popularly esteemed, at the anuouncement that he has been oficlally distinguished in his owa country. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The late Senor Sagasta had a long and in- teresting career as & leading figure in the political life of Spain. He was identified at different times with various parties; and his course, when viewed superficially, seem to have been an Inconsistent one; ye on the whole, in spite of his occasional divagations, he always represented a liberal and enlightened atatesmanship. In his early years his liberalism, like that of the Italian Crispl, was of the extreme type. He might in those days properly have beeh called not only a radical but & revolutionist; and, in- deed, In 1856 he actually took part in an unsuccessful revolt which led to his exlile in France. These, however, were the evil years when Isabel II. reigned despotically and when the Spanish court exhibited every form of official corruption and private vice. Later, under the brief regime of the allen King Amadeo, Sagasta drifted into the atti- tude which was at last assumed by Castela He saw that Spain was 111 fitted for consti- tutional government in the Anglo-Saxon ac- ceptance of that term, and so he gave In his adhesion to the only sort of regime that is possible in Spaln—a monarchy governing with a show of constitutional forms, but acting on occasion as though it possessed the reserved powers of despotism. And as a politician he played the game, and in tact he went as far as any of his compeers in carrying elections by bribery, 8o that in 1872 he was driven from office by a very search- ing exposure of his methods. Political cor- ruption in Spain, however, is as generally accepted as it was in England under Wal- pole; and though Sagasta temporarily lost his office, his reputation as a man was in no way tarnished in the estimation of his countrymen, The return of the British registrar gen- eral for Ireland, which has just been pub- lished, Indicates that if the ratio of de- cline in the population for the next fifty years is the same as during the last hait century, there will be very few Irish peo- ple left—at least in Ireland. The number of births, which in 1801 was 108,116, fell last year to 100,976, or nearly 5,000 less than the average of the ten years. Ma rlages, 22,664 In number, were elightly over the average, and deaths totalled 79,119, as compared with 85,999 in 1801 and 90,644 In 1892, and a decennial average of 83,604. The number of emigrants, which ten years ago was 69,623, fell to 89,613, as compared with a ten-year average of 43,358, The sit- uation will be understood by comparing the population figures ecalculated to the middle of last year with those of Ireland's period of maximum population and the fig- ures for 1824, when the collection of vital statistics was first systematized. These returns show the following result Male, Female. 820 3,606,320 (083,043 4,212,018 8,295,061 o 194716 220,914 4,445,690 From these figures it will be seen that the population in the middle of last year was 2,632,610 less than it was seventy- elght years ago, and if the estimated popu- lation in the middle of the present year— 4,425,000—be: compared with that of the maximum year, the diminution in fifty-six years will be found to reach the astonish- ing figure of 3,870,06 The imperial German government has fs- sued a semi-official explanation of the bar- gain with the clericals by which a Roman Catholic theological faculty is to be es- tablished In the University of Strasburg. This declares that the concession was made exclusively for state reasons, since the nonexistence of such a faculty in the an- nexed provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and the consequent education of Roman Cath- olic priests in the Episcopal seminary has tended to keep alive the Francophile spirit among the Alsatian priesthood, who fiatur- ally showed a predilection for France, where Roman Catholicism is prevaleat and no obstacles are put In the way ot etate theological faculties. This declaration, however, has in no way affected the gen- eral conviction that the privilege is the political reward for the help extended to Chancellor von Buelow in the tarifft mat- ter. The agreement corresponds in de- tall with the regulations for the similar faculties at the Prussian state universities at Bonn and Breslau, which vest all power in the ecclesiastical authority. The new regulations for Strasburg expressly stip- ulate that no professor can be appointed to the mew faculty by the governmant without the previous consent of the bishop, while at Breslau and Bonn the bishop had not to be asked beforeband, but wos only allowed afterwards to raise objection”. we The members of the French senate num- ber 300, of whom 225 were originally chosen from the departments for terms of nine years' duration and seventy-five elected for life by the two chambers in joint s slons. These life senatorships have, how- ever, been abolished and now the whole 300 are chosen by the departments. One-third of them retire every three years. The elec- tive body ie pecullar. It consists of two aistinct elements of delegates chosen by the municipal council of each commune in pro- portion to the population of such com- mune, and of the senators, deputies, coun- cillors-general and district councillors of the department. As the muncipal councils to a certain extent and the councils-general absolutely are controlled by the prefects, and as the latter are appointed and at any time removable by the minister of the in- terfor, that is by M. Combes, it will be understood that the actions of these bodie 1s only a distorted reflection of public sen- timent. For this reason, although the ar- bitrary closing of the religious schools h: deprived 806,000 children of the means of securing the education which the law says they must have, it is probable that the sen- ators elected will for the most part be Combes men. The system of governmsnt is highly centralized in France, which is not an unmixed blessing. . The annual financial statement submitted to Parliament the other day by the Itallan financiai minister shows that the improve. ment of recent years is maintained. The budget of 1901-1902 left a net surplus of 23,899,408 lire. The heavy deductions which had to be made from this sum for the China expedition and other expenses were more than compensated for by the Increase in the yleld of customs and other sources of in- come, ieaving a final net balance of more than 32,000,000 lire.' Inasmuch as more than 17,000,000 lire were expended during the same period in railway construction and 53,600,000 in reduciug the debt, the result is very satisfactory. The budget of 1902- 1908 exhibited a surplus of 23,000,000, but from this amount must be deducted certain unforseen expenditures, leaving & net sur- plus of 16,000,000 That of 1903-1904, which had to deal with the loss of revenue caused by reduced taxation, shows a surplus of more than 8,500,000 lire. The metal re- serves held by the state and banks of emis- sion to cover circulation have increased to 660,000,000 lire, or more than b1 per cent of the whole circulation—or 11 per cent more than the proportion legally necessary It is to be remembered, however, that theso latest figures do not include any expendi- tures for the reliet of southern Italy. The budget will wear & very different appear. ance if the announced plans uf the govern- ment are executed without modification. Total. 7,078,140 Loe: Phlladelphla Ledger. The decision of the federal upreme court sustaining the action of the borough of New Hope, Pa., assessing & tax upon the poles of the Western Unlon Telegraph company erected within the borough limit is of far reaching importance to telograph lana telephone companies. b imposi- | KELLEY, STIGER & CO. Our Annual Great Discount Sale Gontinued. Store Open Until 9:3C Saturday Evening. 20 Per Cent Deducted from Men’ our regular prices on all eur , Women’s and Children's WINTER UNDERWEAR. 20 Per Cent on all Cashmere, Wool and Fleeced Hosiery, 20 Per Cent on all our Black Dress Goods, 20 Per Cent on all our Colored Dress Goods, 20 Per Cent on all our Fancy Waistings, 20 Per Cent on all our Evening Wear Materials, 20 Per Cent on all our Linings, Buttons and Trimmings. R S R T T oo s s e 33} Per Cent Deducted From Our Regular Prices On all our women's and Children’s Jackets, On all our Walking Suits, On all our Tailor Made Suits, On all our Separate Dress Skirts, On all our Walking Skirts, On all our Flannel and Silk Waists, On all our Fur Stock, e ———— tion of the tax was resisted on the ground | that the exaction is a tax on interstate | commerce. The court held that the as- sessment is within the powers of local government and 1Is constitational. The | amount fnvolved in this issue is emall, but it ls regarded as a test case | | POLITICAL DRIFT, Omaha Jacksonians are patriots of high degree. In sitting down to a feast of old ham and curried whiskers they have given a rare exhibition of ennobling self-sacri- | fice. H. L. Morse was “put off at Buffalo” | over three score years ago, agd has voted the demoeratio ticket ever since. Environ- ment has no elevating influence on some | people. One member-elect of the | granason, Fifty-efghth | the same ballet dancer I adored when SMILING REMARKS. She—The strain on the soldler in modern warfare must be very great. He—It 1s. Sometimes the photographer isn't ready and you have to wait hours, and then the plctures may prove fallures.— Judge. “But,” protested the plain citizen, “don't you consider honesty a good thing?" “Sure,” replied the politiclan, “but it like all good things; you've got to mak some money before you can afford it. Phijadelphia Press. Nelghbor—It costs a great deal to ralse a_boy these da: Mr. Tucker (father of Tommy)—My ex- perfence 18 that [t doesn’t cost as much to raise a boy as it does to suppress him.— Chicago Tribune. Mr. Askem—Do 1ou believe in heredity? Old ‘Mr. Kidder—Sure; now there's m for instance. 'He's in love wi congress, Alkman Carnahan, republican, of | Was his age.—Detroit Free Press. the Second district of Indlana, before taking office. of representatives ha large mortality. The new legislature of Arkansas s ex- pected to pass a bill for the erection of a state capitol by a non-partiean commis- sion, of which Governor Davis shall not | be a member, and over which he shall | have no control. Massachusetts and Connecticut defeated in 1901 bills offered in the legislature for woman's suffrage. The New -Hampshire constitutional convention has edopred for submission to the voters a woman's suff- rage amendment. David Bennett Hill protests against the use of his plcture as a testimonfal for a nt medicine. The owner of the cure- all seems to have forgotten that eome of Dave's political associates have pronounced him beyond .recovery. Judge . T. Corn, & democrat, his bo- come chief justice of the supreme court of Wyoming under & law which provides for the rotation of the several justices cf the court jn the highest place. Judge Corn is the first man of his political faith who has ever occupled the position. The roll call of millionaire senatory in the Fifty-eighth congress will stand about as follows: Clark, Hanna, Depew, Platt, Kean, Dryden, Elkins, Bard, Kerens, Per- kins, Wetmore, Proctor, Scoft, Quay, Alger | and Addicks. Perhaps about one senator in every six is a real live millionaire. Something in the Ohlo political situation gave displeasure to Senator Hanna a day or two ago and he was complaining to one of his henchmen that so-and-so had not been done. “You did mot tell me to do it,” protested the Ohlo man. ‘““That makes no difference,” anapped the senator. ““You should have done it anyway." The smaller | politician said: “Senator, I'm willing to obey your orders, but how long do you think T ehould last 1 T took to antlcipating has dled The present house had an unusually 1 wish T were & boy agal That 1 were Could find that dear old If 1 were but & hero With beanstalk Jack I'd s In eeven-leaguer Years di them?” have had a good many good jobs," #aid the political officeholder, “and I guess ther a lot of people who'd resign my present on like to ses my “‘Well,"” replied one of his rival most of us would prefer to see you die in office.” —Philadelphia Pres “I don't belleve she has the true artistla e Why, almost look as if they were made fof ‘Oh, yes; but then, you know, she has only been studying art a very short time.” ~—Brooklyn Life. “He must be a pretty good mathemati- clan.” ““How I8 that?"" %e'll”{nm ger of a burlesque show." “Wellr: ““Well, that's mostly a questidr of figures isn't it#'—Chicago Post. “JUST AS IT USED TO BE.) F. M. Munroe in Town and Country, n, That age were but a di ream, That Things would change from what they are To what they used to seem; ut a litte boy And from my mother's kuce airyl 1, Just as it used to be. 1f_wishes only were a horse, How far away I'd ride Across the plains of yesterday, Bold comrades by my side; Once more 1'd rescue captive malds; Ah! doughty deeds you'd see, bold, Just as I used to be ly forth alore; boots I'd stride away that enchanted shor Te glants kill Where ogres dwell, in castles huge, And mermaids swarm the sel 0, how I'd love to find them alf Just as they used to be. My little boy says I'm all wrong— That nothing's changed at all, That he can show me ogres flerce, And glants more than tall; Then, clasping his dear hand In mine He 'leads me forth to see— » as leaves; I'm young again, Just as I used to be. shopping until the I are always rushed. had. 1t s in giving full value boys. 25 per cent discount on OVERCOATS out the old suit at a big saving. e Boys’ Broken lines of extra trousers and broken suit trousers ranging in price from $4.00 to $6.50 are offered at this sale. $3. a pair—all materials represented here is an excellent opportunity to plece Some Saturday Suggestions in connection with our 25 per cent discount rale, So many people put off their t day of the week that, if the weather is favorable, we ‘e expeet to find a good many people in eearch of winter clothing this week. Our 25 per cent Alscount has met with surprising activily since ft started—in fact to such an extent that we are confident that the trade with us in the knowledge that finer and better clothing than ours cannot be That is the advantage of manutacturing our ovn clothing. ther than ridiculo think we offer superior inducements to men and boys and the mother of small ly low figures that we No Clothing Fits Like Ours. m's and 25 per cent discount on SUITS 50 sochecrwesr ALL WINTER UNDERWEAR gy surs 1c mersswirs 5 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT See Windows. Browning g 5-@ R S. WILCOX, Manager. Boys' Und'w 28¢ Boys'Gloves 28¢