Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SDITOR. E. ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION \thout Bunday), One Year.$4.00 d Bunday, One Year 6.00 jee, Ope Yeur v 2.0 Ohe Year e One Year L tury Farmer, One Year..1.00 ED BY CARRIER . fly Hes (without Sunday), per cop. 20 y Bee (without Bunday), § wons 1o Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .1ic Bunday Bee, per ¢ earanesiniss 80 Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week to Evening Bes (including Sunday), per week o , ot Complaints ‘of \rregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Clreulation De- partment, OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding South Omuha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Btreeis Councll Blufts 10 Pear! Street. Chicago—itdo, Unity Bullding Now York-2as Park Row Hutlding. Washington—601 Fourteenth Street. 4 CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Bditorlal Department. REMITTANCES. | order, Rem| draft, express or pos lbf: ?: The Hee II' iblishing mpany. B?J 3-cont stamps accepted In payment of maill aocounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLIBHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, se. B sorge B Taachuck. secretary af The He Publishi Company bemng duly 8woi y says thal the actual numosr ¢ full A complete coples of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee printed during the month of July, 108, was as follows: 1 BaO FEUNNERFEEEEIES Lesa unsold and returned coples. Net total sales Net average sal GEORGE B TZ8CHUCK, ,Bubscribed 1n my prosence wna swern, to his o Ju . 1904, g M. B HINGATR, (BeaD Notary Publle. ——————————— PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the oty for the summer may e The Bee seut to them regularly by Bee B The address will be as often as desired, C—————— ‘What has become of that man who says “It's cool In Colorado?” | The open bridge quuUm; has been settled, but the open door question ls still hanging fire. | The decimated reform forces in Custer county seem to have taken the Denver declaration serfously. Nebraska corn {8 In comparatively better condition than the corn in ‘'other states. Nebraska is all right | Omaha extends hearty welcome to the assembled sheriffs from twelve states with the fervent wish that thelr busi- uess will grow less as the years roll on. | Pope Plus wil] have to learn that the rule for men in positions of high respon- sibllity s “never to do today what can safely be put oft till tomorrow." | If the British courts put an embargo on South Dakota divorces the only thing for South Dakota to do is to retaliate by refusing to recognize British dlvorces, | The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic is a drawing card, but the bulk of the people heading for San Francisco are attracted there by the low rallroad rates. e Carrie Natlon now wants $50,000 in damages from the city of Scranton in Pennsylvania for false lmprisonment. The hatchet wielder has to keep before the public in some way. Nebraska prohibitionists $1,000 as a campalgn fund behind their candidates for state officers. This ought to insure more than usual interest in the cause of prohibition this year. Before General Miles can expect the Commoner to rally to his support he will bhave to make declaration under oath how he would have voted in 1806 | and fn 1900 if he had only bad a vote, SEE——— The two democratic members of the Board of Public Works cannot repress thelr eagerness to use their position for propagating politics, but they do know how to do it without showing their bands. To show their displeasure at the wmur- der of King Alexander and Queen Draga Russian and Austriau army officers have been forbidden to associate with tho officers of the Servian army. 1t ts Qim- tart out with | not | | RELYING ON TAR WHEST. It appears that In eastern financial circles there is a general feeling that upon the crop results and the business conditions in the west depend a revival from the depressing influences that exist in the east and the continuance of pros- perity. No little encouragement seems to have been afforded by a statement of Governor Odell of New York on hia re- cent return from a transcontinental trip, in which he sald he was profoundly im- pressed by all that he saw in the far west and the Mississippl valley. He was quoted as expressing the opinlon that it is absurd to think that the troubles of the Wall street Stock exchange will, in thelr effect, be far-reaching enough to seriously disturb the general course of business and Industry, basing that view upon what he saw of the almost har- vested erops of the west and the never slackening Industry that was conspicu- ous wherever ho went. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says that this most encouraging opinion of Governor Odell, differing as it does from the views of those who are actually In the thick of afairs, fllustrates the chaotic state of mind, not so much as to the cause of the existing difficuities, but instead as to what the immediate manifestations of them are to be and the ultimate effect. The correspondent adds: “It is sincerely hoped here that all Governor Odell says is well within the truth and that the su- perb activities of the west and fts harvests may speedily be found so act- ing as to check the depressing influences that are here. That they can wholly overcome them no Intelligent man be- lieves. That they may force a halt and fidence everyone hopes.” There is fa- vorable promise that this rellance upon the west will be justified by results. The total of the crops will not be so large as seemed probable a month ago, but it will undoubtedly be up to and perhaps somewhat in excess of the nver- age. The conditions in Wall street have not so far appreclably interfered with the Industries or the general business of the west and there is not at present any apprehension in this section. There is confidence in the ability of the west to provide for the movement of its crops and to take care of all its legitimate business Interests. It 1s understood, of course, that a financial crisis In the enst could not fall to injurlously affect the west, but so sound and substantial is the basis of western business and prosperity that no ordinary erisis could serfously disturb it, It 18 not to be doubted, we think, that Governor Odell's view of the situation will prove to be well-founded. The west 18 at present in a safe position and there 18 every reason to expect will continue 80. Its products will be ample for ai demands and will etill make the heaviest contribution to the wealth and prosperity of the nation. THE TROUBLE IN TH® BALKANS. A perplexing problem is presented to the European powers in the trouble in the Balkans, but it is hardly probable that 1t will eventuate in a conflict of a very serlous character, although this seems now to be threatened. The sp- peal of the Macedonlan committee to the representatives of the powers clearly sets forth the cause of the disturbance. It is the persistent and growing perse- cution of the Christians by the Turks, which has become unbearable and should no longer be permitted by the powers which under the BerMn treaty assumed the obligation of regulating the policy of the Turkish government in the Balkan provinces, subject to its authority. As the appeal of the Macedonians states, the sporadic ef- forts of the powers to‘secure reforms have failed and the result has been a re- vival of Turkish fanaticiem and oppres- slon. Turkey has ignored or evaded nearly all the pledges she has made in regand to Macedonla and Bulgaria and her course has been of the most exas- perating character. Not only are the people most oppres- sively taxed, but they are also subjected to a tyrannous rule and to every sort of abuse and humiliation. The Macedon- ian, says a writer on conditions in that country, is perhaps the most heavily taxed of any peasant in the world, al- ways oxcepting his fellow subjects. Apart from land tax and tithe, he pays & tax for exemption from the military service, which as a Christian he is not allowed to enter. He pays a tax for education, which he never receives from the state. He pays a tax for roads and bridges, which are never bullt. “In short,” says this writer, “he pays a tax on everything he buys, on everything he sells, on everything he lmports, on everything he exports, on everything he carries, ou everything he weighs, on everything he possesses and on many things which he does not possess.” The gathering of the taxes is the occasion of ‘oulmmu and oppressions of the most galllng sort and there is no redress, then bring a gradual restoration of con- | \J THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1903. mier's utterance no expression of coneern for the people who are suffering from Turkish oppression and persecu- tion. It is evident from what he sald that the British government has no in- tention to take an active part in the matter. ‘The time Is opportune for free- ing the Christian people of the Balkans from the rule of the Turk, but it is not likely to be fmproved by the powers, though it could be accompl'shed with- cut difficnlty and would be for the gen- eral good. THE NEW PRIMARY RULES. The new primary election rules re- cently mdopted by the Douglas county republican committee are still a Chinese puzzle to the runk and file of the party. It 1s doubtful whether a dozen mem- bers of the county committee, outside of those who helped to draft the Jef- feris-Vinsonhaler regulations, have n clear comprehension of the practical op- eration of the machinery that will be set in motlon in the selection and nomj nation of candidates for the county ticket this fall. Ostensibly the new rules are design.d to break.up the machine combinations, but when put to the test they will be found to foster and force combinations. Oandidates who are not generally known to the voters in all parts of the county will be compelled, whether they like it or not, to tie up with other candidates in order to get support in voting diy- tricts and wards where they are un- kpown, or comparatively unknown. While the new county committee will consirt of 102 members, the chairman and the five members who will constitute the executive committee will be supreme and absolute. The most radical changes wrought by the new primary election rules may be summed up as follows: 1. All eandidates must register twen ty-five days before the primary election and pay an entrance fee ranging from $5 to 8100, with the privilege of with- drawing from the race five days before the primary, but no entrance fee will be refunded. Dark horses are mopped off the slate by the rule tbat forbids the convention to consider the name of any candidate who has not been regularly entered. 2. Delegates to the conventions are pledged and instructed in advance to vote for the candidates who have polled a majority of the votbs cast in their re- spective voting districts, and in case the candidate receiving the majority in that precinct drops out in the convention hy or subsequent ballots, they are required to vote for the candidate recelving the next highest number of votes in their 1espective precincts as second choice, and so on until the panel is exhausted. In case the delegate attempts to cast his vote contrary to the recorded instrue- tion the chairman of the conventlon is authorized to cast his vote in accordance ‘with the expression of preference of the precinct represented by the recreant delegate. 8. The apportionment of delegates In Omaha and South Omabha is made pro- portionate to the aggregate number of votes polled for McKinley in each voting district, taking fifty or a major part thereof as the basis for each delegate. Each country precinct is given an arhi- trary representation of five delegates re- gardless of the number of votes cast. Under this apportionment the city of Omaba will be entitled to 226 delegates, South Omaha to 35 and the country pre- clnets 70 4. The greatest change is made in the makeup of the committee. The o'd com- mittee consisted of three members from each ward in Omaha, one from each ward In South Omaha and two members from each country precinet. This gave Omaha 27 votes, South Omaha 6 and the country precinets 28. In the new com- mittee Omaha will be represented by 76 members, South Omaha by 12 and the country precincts by 14, 3 8. Heretofore the primary elections were held in one voting place in each ward and in one voting place for all of South Omaha. Under the new rules there will be seventy-six voting places in Omaha and twelve in South Omaha, ‘while the precincts in the country will remain as heretofore. In other wornds, in Omaha and South Omaha delegates will no longer represent wards but elec- tion districts, and consequently the dele- gatea from the various wards may repre- sent as many factions as way take part in the contest. 6. Under the new rules every voter must place his mark opposite the name of the candidate he prefers for each office. There will be no grouping of crossmark, but while each voter will pedite voting and more than offset the candidate. The first trouble to be encountered tem will be in setting it in motion. The committee has made ample provision for reason of being the lowest on the first | candidates and voting for them with one | have to give more time the increase in | the number of voting places should ex- | time lost in marking for each individual | with the inauguration of this new sys- | is not their prime object. If the Im- provement club federation is to accom- plish anything and keep out of the con- tentions of conflicting interests, anxious to use its machinery to further foreign schemes, it will have to stick to its origl- nal program and hold itself free from all entangling alllances. If Land Commissioner Follmer suc-|sumptions direct ceeds in recovering from the rallroads for the school lands occupled by thelr never received compensation, he will have a big feather in his cap. The rail- roads have always figured that they could do about as they pleased in Ne- braska without being called to account, and If the issue is forced may be ex- pected to take refuge behind all sorts of puerile technicalities. If the school lands had belonged to private individualx instead of to the state, we may be sure the railronds would have had to pay for the land and would have had no thought of getting them for nothing. As long as they were state lunds, however, we may be sure they wlll not pay for them nn- less compelled to do so. That there were no lives lost in the recent oll and paint shop fire from ex- plosions is almost miraculous. But that the firemen would have such good luck in another similar fire 18 not to be as- sumed. Inspection and regulation of the storage of explosives is something the city owes, if not to itself, at least to the firemen called upon to expose their lives in such emergencies. Great Rfimlnn postmaster general international penny postage. will arrive, however, and that before many years. When it is recalled that it cost 20 cents to carry a letter from New York to San Francisco fifty years ago, for which service only 2 cents is now demanded, the possibilities for the fu- ture appear unlimited. The time Governor Mickey confidently looks for- ward to a good corn crop If the frost will but hold off long enough for the corn to mature. Now Joshua prevalled upon the Lord to stop the sun so that he could lick the Philistines good and plenty. Why couldn’t Governor Mickey | prevail upon the Lord to stop the frost 80 as to insure an abundant corn crop for Nebraska? If something is not soon done to arbl- trate the difference between the oppos- ing factions of the mining troubles at Idaho Springs, several Colorado jails will { have to be enlarged to hold the prisoners on both sides and the Colorado courts will be busy indefinitely in order to clear up the litigation—civil and criminal --growing out of it. h Insinuating Arthur, ‘Washington Post. While insisting that he has not thought | of himself in connevtion with a presidential | nomination, Senator Gorman shows no dis- | position to interfere with the right of free thinks for other people. WIHIl Jersey Start the Ballt Brooklyn Eagle. Should New Jersey send a delegation in- I structed for Cleveland to the democratic national convention, it would lead the way thought possible s dally becoming more probable. The More Eco Philadelphia Press. | There apears to be a disposition on the part of some prominent democrats to put | oft the presidential nomination next year to as late a date as possible. The more | economical way would be to make no nom- Wi ts. Pittsburg Dispatch. The German courts have just ordered a railroad company which had Injured a phy- | siclan to pay him an annual sum for life |equal to his ordinary earnings. If there was a law lke that in this country there | would be & notabla decrease in railroad ac- cidents. Philadelphia Record. As a forecaster of future events Senator Morgan, of Alabama, certalnly observes the fitnesses and unities. He thinks Foraker of Ohlo, will be pitted by the | democrat, in the presidential race for 1804 What a “Pull Dick pull devil” scimmage would follow! Teeping Up With Prosperity. Cleveland Leader. The farther the season advances the | enough to | unsalable at a fair pront. cultural interests of the country will do their part to keep up general prosperity | tor the Amerigan people. kTl t Loas, Philadeiphla Press. Senator Tillman, the great antl-mo- | nopolist, complains because he lost his { book of rallroad passes. This is South Carolina by opposition to railroads and other corporations. But it is charac- teristic of Tillman. His former warfare was probably carried on for the purpose of securlng passes. rights of way for which the state has | the power to do certain illegal things, that does not think the time has arrived for | Jersey for the purpose of holding a con- A QUESTION OF ASSUMPTIONS, 3 n's Merger Reasoning Contrasted With the Faets. Boston Transcript. Apropos of Judge Lochren's recent de- clston In the case of The State of Minne- sota against The Northern Securities Com- pany excellent judiclal authority may be cited In similar cases which rests upon as- opposite to that which underlies Judge Lochren's reasoning. According to Judge Lochren's decision, it I8 not enough that a corporation may have it may be thought to have been organized for the purpose of doing that thing, or that it would find pécuniary profit in doing it It must be proven to have done the thing before it can be made accountable to the courts of justice. Proceeding upon this as- sumption, Judge Lochren was not able to find in the Northern Securities company anything more than a corporation which had invested in the shares of two previ- ously existent corporations. But In the case of The State of Ohio against The Standard Oll Company the su- preme court spoke thus: “Experience shows that it is net wise to trust human cupidity where it has the opportunity to aggrandize itself at the expense of others. The mis- chief of a monopoly is not necessarily In the fact that prices are raised, but that it has the power to control and raise prices.” In the came against the Diamond Match company the supreme, court of Michigan held that the object and tendency of that combination was to prevent free competi- tion and to control prices, and it said. “It 18 no answer to say that this monopoly has in fact reduced the price of friction matches, That policy may have been neces- sary to crush competition. The fact re- mains that it rests in the discretion of this company at any time to raise the price to an exorbitant figure. The loglc of these decisions applied to the Northern Securities company would be that that company was not chartered in New trolling interest In competing railroads without the intention of using that control in suppressing competition and advancing rates to whatgver extent and in whatever practicable way It might find profitable. This,assumption is far more in accord with what the average man has observed and experlenced of the ways of corporations than the assumption on which Judge Loch- ren's decision rests. FORESTRY SYSTEM NEEDED. Proper Use of Matured Timber and Prevention of Waste. San Francisco Chronicle. The Interior department has temporarily withdrawn 6,000 square miles of land in Alaska, with a view to creating another forest reserve in that territory. The land is located to the northward of Golovin bay and Norton sound, running 125 miles along the coast and extending fifty to sixty miles inland. The object in establishing the re- serve is not the same as that which has prompted the withdrawal of great areas of | land In this state. There is no real or worked-up anxiety in Alaska over the im- | pairment of the water supply, but it is charged that there is reckless timbering which menaces the future of the mining In- in democratic restoration. What was barely | republicans against Gorman, of Maryland, | ninth birthday on the 6th inst more certain it becomes that the crops | will be good, on the average, but not big | flood the markets with grain| The great agri-| the country districts the salaries are 35 | the | “statesman” who won his prominence in| dustry, for it is moderately certain that unless a halt is called upon the improvi- dent waste of the forests, in a very little time there will be a prohibitory scarcity of lumber. It is very proper that the government should heed complaints of reckless lumber- ing and seek to prevent the evil, but it is | doubtful whether reserving vast quantities | of timber land will accomplish the desired purpose of assisting the mining industry. Withdrawing 6,00 square miles of timbered land from settlement will doubtless prove conducive to the conservation of the for- ests 1f they are efficiently patrolled, but it 1s not quite clear in what manner miners will benefit by belng denied access to the timber. It would seem that under such circumstances they will be about as badly oft as though the land were entirely de- nuded of every stick of wood. 1In both cases lumber will be equally hard to get. What is needed to supplement the reser- vation system is an effective forestry s tem which will permit the proper use of matured timber and utterly prevent reck- less waste. The Interior department should | be capable of developing a satisfactory | scheme to bring about this result, but so far as the world knows it contents itself with its utterly inadequate performance of making the timber inaccessible. Get to work In the matter, Mr. Secretary of the Interior, and if your department is un- equal to the task suggested let it admit the fact so that congress may take steps | to create a commission which will give us | a forestry system which will make our for- } ests a source of profit instead of locking | them up and rendering them valueless to man. PERSONAL NOTES. People on the Malne eoast are natu- rally wondering how long it will be be- fore “the diapason of the cannonade” is succeeded by the popping of the champagne bottles. Darius and Cyrus Cobb, the twin brother artists of Boston, celebrated their sixty- Both are strong and robust and are as devoted to thefr work as ever John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, ex- postmaster general, says the story that Senator Quay would like to see him in con- | gress is “almost too absura to discuss. Furthermore, Mr. Wanamaker says, he would not accept any pubric omice. Several countles in Pennsylvania report | & scareity of teachers for the public schools. Engagements are now being made, when | possible, for the coming vear. In many of | per month or less, and scores of teachers are finding more profitable work in other lines. John D. Rockefeller, whose hostility to | the liquor business closed the famous Wed- dell hotel In Cleveland as soon as the Stan dard Oil man got control of it. may build & temperance hotel on part of the Weddell house site. Such a plan has been discussed by L. W. Bowers and J. G. W. Cowles, | tor each | print visibie bars across the BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. or Scenes Incidents Sketohed on the Spot. Painters, tilemen, polishers and other in- terfor decorators have complete ession of the senate and house wings of the na- tlonal capitol, overhauling the chambers and committee rooms where statesmen doth congregate, and diligently absorbing the quarter of a milllon dollars appropriated for that purpose. Visitors are obliged to satisfy their curlosity in the main hall under the dome and In Statuary hall. The repainting of the exterfor of the dome is completed. The upper and lower corridors of the senate are being freed of their gaudy colors and solid tints appear in thelr stead. Every large pleture in the buflding is to be regllded. Beveral are badly in need of re- pairs. Over on the house side some radical changes are under way. One of the most pleasing to the public is the enlargement of the seating capacity of the galleries. The same change is to be made on the senate side, but the number of additional seats will be larger over in the house, where the big- gest crowds of visitors are always found. About two years ago, when the new system of vemtilating was installed, opera chairs were placed In all the galleries. Since then members have been harrassed with com- plaints from constituents who wers unable to get seats in the galleries. So the ex- pensive opera chairs are to go and in their stead will appear mahogany benches. This will Increase the seating capacity of the house gallery’ by probably 40 and of the senate by 250. The old English tils on the floor of the house lobby has been torn up and a con- tract let for laying white marble. This tile, which has served so long throughout the capitol, is being removed only in this lobby. Every plece s being saved for patch work in other corridors. The house is to have bronze doors to correspond to the massive doors on the senate side. They will cost $35,000 and will probably be made by Mr. Mosman of Chicopee, Mass., whose father was the contractor for the handsome senate doors. The barber shop of the house is being overhauled and decarated on the same gen- erous scale. Outside of the capitol repub- licans and democrats meet in barber shops and occupy chalrs indiscriminately. A re- publican may precede or follow a democrat in a chalr, or may sit alongside of him while having his hirsuts appendage re- paired in the most approved fashion. But it 18 not so at the capitol on the house side. Before the present barber shop accommo- dations were provided the republicans had a shop in their lobby and the democrats had another on their side of the house. Now that the entire force of barbers is being moved to quarters in the basement, on the opposito side of the hallway from the house restaurant, arrangements have been made for having the republicans and democrats shaved in separate rooms, These rooms are adjoining, with only a marble barrier between them, but they have been provided with separate doors, so that re- publicans and democrats may never meet even in going In or coming out of the shop. On the senate side of the capitol there is a more general mixing of men of all shades of political views. There is but one barber shop, and there republicans and democrats meet as contestants for the chairs when they are empty. When there were popu- lists in the semate they, too, used the bar- ber shop, though, as a rule, they did not need shaving, but merely came to get their hair trimmed or their beards kept within reasonable limits. On both the senate and the house side of the capitol the barbers are paid from the public funds. They are very well paid, too, and In addition to what they get in | the way of salaries from the government they get a good many tips from their statesmen customers. In both senate and house there is a very strict rule against any one except a senator or representative making use of the special shops. A senator never invades the precincts of the house barber and a representative never even looks fato the senatorial quarters. Inspectors are anxious to have the Post- office department adopt a series of marks for stamps which will make it possible to trace stolen stamps with less trouble. De- partment officials are considering sugges- tions oftered by some of the experienced inspectars. It would be possible to mark all the stamps sent to each first-class postoffice in such a manner that they could be iden- tified with ease. A slight variation in the cngraving which would not alter the ap- pearance of stamps to the casual observer could easily be made. One Inspector has | suggested that darts, arrows, stars, circles and other emblems be printed on the| stamps in such manner that they may be | seen only with the aid of a microscope. | A separate mark could not be devised of the 75,000 postoffices in the United States, and no attempt would be made at any such complex system of iden- tification. It is not likely that postoffices below the first-class will be given an indl- vidual mark as the number of stamps kept at the smaller offices Is comparatively small, and the losses from such offices is not great enough to justify the expense entailed in providing them with stamps Qifferent from those used at other offices. It has been suggested that all the stamps for second-class postoffices be provided with a mark which will designate the class of postoffice from which they were issued | nd that & similar mark be devised for all be stamps sent to the smaller offices ils sygtem would narrow the scope of the Inspectors’ work, and might be adopted at small expense, One official is best way to of the opinion that the) mark stamps would be to face of all o first-class those fssued stamps except offices. He would have two bars ncross the stamps sent to second-class office, threa bars on the third-class office stamps, and four bars to designate the stamps jssued by the fourth-class offices. This plan would probably meet with much opposition, as it would mar the artistic appearance of the engraving. If the plan for the fdentification of stamps had been adopted last year the theft of $70,000 worth of stamps from the Chicag postoffice would probably not have curred. No thief could dispose of such large number of stamps so well mark that they could be identified as trom the Chicago postoffice TICKLING THE SWEET TOOTH. Importation of & Capita Comsumption, Chicago Record-Herald That we are far from realizing the opti- mistio predictions of Secretary Wilson, that we will one day produce all the sugar wo consume, is again shown by the statis just issued from the Treasury departme at Washington. Our importation of during the fiscal year just ended, incl 1,020,000,000 pounds from Hawail, Porto Rico and the Philippines, amounted to 034 pounds, which exceeds the record of importation of all previous years. before has the importation exceeded 000,000 pounds, The largest importation in any previous year was that of 1807, wben the totnl reached 4,018,906,733 pounds. If we add (o the enormous importation of 1803 the 6 000,00 poundss of domestio production have a grand total of 5.817.000,000 pounds consumed by the people of the United Statealh one year. Estimating the present population at 0,000,000, this woull seventy-two pounds of sugar to each vidual. An Interesting. feature of the statist is the contribution of our island deper cles to this supply. From Porto Rico wa r and the Per brought 226,143,608 pounds, from the H wallan Islands we imported 774,52 42 pounds, and from the Philippines nearl 20,000,000 pounds, showing that these islands supplied about one-fifth of the total amou of sugar brought iInto this country during the year. The consumption per capita has increased from 65 to 72 pounds since 1906, but still falls considerably short of the capita o sumption of the United Kingdom, which was 91.6 pounds in that year. It is prob- able, however, that the English consump- tion will decline conslderably after the Brussels agreement is in force. POINTED REMARKS, ‘When a woman scolds a man, he ought to be grateful that she takes even that much interest in him.—Somerville Journal. Pat—How does vez loike codfish balls? Mike—Faith! an' I niver ‘tended one, but 1t's big toimes I've had down at the fire- min's hop.—Lippineoit’s. “I tell you It keeps me bus trying to earn my salary,” these days said the drum mer with the prominent jawbone. “Huh!" said the drummer with the red nose, “you ain't half as busy as I am. I Y have to make my boss think I'm earning my salary.”’—Chicago Tribune. ‘““Then,” said the first mosquito, “you were still singing when the man endeavored to swat you?" | ,,"Oh, yes! I bad just finished the recita- tive and began the aria.”—Puck. “I suppose, my boy." said the stranger in i town, T can jump on any one of these cars and go to the park.” “I dunno,” replied the newsboy. *‘Anuder uy dat looked as clumsy as you tried to Jump on one de udder day an’ he went ter de morgue.”—Philadelphia. Press. “So you have abandoned populism for- ever?" “‘Yes, Sir,” answered Farmer Corntossel. | “Ever ‘since 1 went to town and got two plugged dimes and a Canada quarter I'm eart and soul with the people who are standin’ out for honest money in the. strict- est'sense of the ph —Washington Star. Kbllnl Arthur had established the Round ‘able. to have the knights take pot luck " he explained glibly. Later, however, Guinevere was dlsturbed by finding some red, white and blue chips in the royal pocket.—New York Sun. Bachelor—I don’t understand why he wants to marry her. Why, she m't any mind at all Henpeck—So much the better. Then sha can’t be changing it every hour or s0.— Philadelphia Ledger. “I hope,” sald the Sunday to a new pupil, “that you mother are good Christians. “Ma is,” replied the observing youngster, “and pa used to be, but 1 guess he's & little out of practice now."—Chicago New, WATERMELON TIME. . Massa, dere’s no use talkin’, 3 gwine to draw my pay; T's a gittin’ mighty home-sick. An' I'm gwine back right away. chool teacher father and In de winter time, ‘twas bad ‘nuff, Howls of coyotes filled de afr, But dey want no use of huntin’, Not a coon nor possum there. And den in de balmy June-time River's mighty clear I ‘low, Butded kind of fish dats in ‘em Dey just won't bite nohow. But I could a stood all dese things, But de udder day I found, 1f_you wants a watermelon, You must buy it by de pound. Wages mighty good in Wyoming, But some-how it seems to me, Dat heaven's a heap sight closer To my home in Tennessee. And de soft cry of de whippo'will, Seems a kind of an evenin' prayer; And ‘Massa’ dis darkey’s heart-sick With a longing to be dar. And it T once gets b I'll never again be fc In a dratted place where you has to buy Watermelon by de pound. : Now ‘Massa’ don’t you urge me, For I's surely got to climb, If 1 wants to get back bome again In watermelon time. LILLIE M. HOFFMAN, Omaha, Neb. OPPORTUNITIES IN OUT INGS cult to tell which will be punished the | Moreover, the Christian under all e¢ir- managers of John D. Rockefeller's real es- more heavily CEEte——— Just now electric rallroad bullding in Nebraska is chiefly on the wap. The promoters confideutly assert that thére is money enough to float all thelr proj- ects, but for reasons best kuown to themselves the investors do not come forth with the woney. T | cumstances must maintain an attitude | of abject humility in the presence of a | Mohammedan. The latter's -habitual mode of address toward a Christian ls one of contempt. Thus these people are subjected to constant humiliation and Kross ubuse from thelr Turkish rulers. Under such circumstances it is not sur- prising that the spirit of revolt is con- conducting the primaries after the frst | year, but seems to bhave overlooked the necessity of putting the wheels in mo- tion this year. It will not be difficult for the precinct committeemen to organ- ise their respective election districts after this year, but inasmuch as there are now only three committeemen in | each ward in Omaba and one in each | Springfield Republican. Woman's Christlan Temperance unlon for something as crisp and satistying as “punch,” without its festive significance | 1t ts lamentalle, the Nebraska good women | think, to have for thelr tables and enter- talnments anything that's called by that wicked name Wanted, a “short, catel name for| Prof. George N. Oicott, of Columbia fruit drinks that have no alcohol. A re-| University, has often been asked what his ward of § s offered by the Nebraska | middle Initial stands for, buc has generally tate interests. evaded a direct answer. The other day however, he sald that the "N stood for | “Nothing.” This, hé proceeded to \'xplun,‘? was actually true. He had never been | given a middle name, and so gave himself | a middle initfal There are lots of things in furnishings on which prices are reduced—and clothing as well. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE: Negligee Shirts, the $1 kinds, for 75¢c. Negligee Shirts, the $1.50 kinds, for $1.15, Negligee Shirts, the $3.50. $3.00, $2.50 and | ward in South Omaba, it will be im-| $2.00 kinds, for $1.75. tnually active and it will be well if it — | possi e olec C! The French West ludies seem to be|sball so ansert ftselt as to compel the u.,...h:: ::u:h:;l —— = frcs :.h‘.( shogedbvdnan S, e Serge suits at $5 and $7.50, that were double, dal object : - ecinets ¢ PO R Al a8 Coudter ey | = t :‘:::; "\':* n-:lh:‘:. of umature's| powers to lustitute the' remedies and | their respective wards. g - gt b PO $15, $18 and $20 homespuns, cheviots and fancy mix- 0 niw - inundating | reforms which the situation 8o urgeatly —_— Chautauqua In Des Moines, Ia., said that | y t thatare so popalar, at $10 and $12.50. then w voleanic outpourings, they | calls for, The Federated Improvement clubs|“s man should be true to his ideals in life ures, : bave now been swept by & vialent huret- | It appears that the Quty of doing this | have invited the Commercial club, Ak- | FeSardiess of the cost of the sacrifice.” and OMAHA. A geuneral house clearing is taking place in our store to make room and clean up for the coming season- NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. Browning: King-§-@© added: “I will go down and die in defeat before 1 will surrender the principles in which 1 belleve and of which I am cham- | Xl 01" savantages in musie, art and pion." We should liRe to know how many | yrerary interpretation. Prepdres for any | times Mr. Bryan must be defeated before | oollege open to women. Vassar, Wellesley, he will die, and we should also like to know | Mt Holyoke, Western Reserve University, what has been the “cost” or the “sacrifice” | University of Nebraska and University of to him of his championship of the principles | Chicago, admit pupils without examination the Improvement Club federation than | which he has promulgated. He has suffered | on the certificates of the principal and cane. The unfortunate victims will re- | rests chiefly with Russia. and Austria, Qouble their efforts to locate the hoodoo. | the other powers seemingly not helng m——pe—— | disposed to take any active tnterest in The nonunlon mechanics employed in | the matter. Great Britain s one of the the ‘Unlon Pacifie shops at Cheyenne | signatories of the Berlin treaty. but the bave organized themseives as an inde | reference made by Prime Minister Rul- pendent nonunion labor union. A non | four in the House of Commons to the Sar-Bea and the Real Estate exchange to send delegates to their ceatral or- ganization, It this plan is carried out it will be but the beginning of the end. There I8 no wore reason why the Com- mercial club should have delegates in Social atmosphere home-like and happy. General and ollege preparatory courses. unign labor union differs from the regu- | Balkan situation gave no promise of |that it should bave delegutes in the | 5o money loss If the stories that are toid | faculty. Thoroughness usisted upop | | laz labor unlon in. this that its members | auything more than & perfunctory sup- | Central Labor union. They are doubt. | 420U¢ his possessions be trus: he has made | training uoder o & profesmonal direc )- e v k. e K s, ample pro bave agreed to do thelr fghting and (Port of the Russian and Auséeian | less all interested in public improve- | o, Wil thAT Yo know ok umess Be | BCH SRR ool sporta. inciudin R. S. Wilcox. Manager. ) aports. ncluding "-""l‘ @overnments. There was in the pre- [ meuts of one kind and another, but that | cight years as a sacrifice (g (A g | |