Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1903, Page 6

_’I‘m; OMAHA DAnY Bek | B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED E ERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Bunday), One Year..$4 60 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year.. Tiustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, Ona Year Baturday Bée, One Year Twentieth Century Parmer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Dally Bee (without Bunday). per week Dally Bee (including Sunduy), per week. 1 Bunday Bee, per copy [ Evening Bee (without Bunday), p Eyening Bee (Including Sunday), Tompiaints’ of irreguiarities delivery should be adg-essed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFiCES, gmaha_The Bee Bull Bout b ity "Hall “Butlding, Twen- tyPih and M Bireats: Council Blufts—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—_16w Unity Bulding. ork—212% Park Row Building. ashington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating o news and edi- torial_matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, le to The Bee Publishing Company. Unly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall nrvounl rrlom- checks, except on Omaha or e s, not accepted. ern_exchan, HE BEE PU Emsmfio COMPA STATEMENT OF CIRCU l.ATloN las County. State of gebrl.kn Doug! ounty, 8. e ‘zschick, secretary of being duly sworn, TR Publisning Company, says that llll nzlull number of full an complete jes of The Daily Morning, Evening lnd gundlv Bee printed during the month of July, 1903, was as follows: EEEEsncapense Net total sales... Net average sales G GE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence lnd lvlnrn to betore me this dist aay of July, W B K NGATE, (Beal) Notary Publ E————m—— PARTINS LEAVING FOR SUMMER. eflice, in person or by mall, The address will hbe changed as often as Aesired. e —— Tourist travel is now on the return coupon of the ticket. 8ir Thom: Lipton wanted a stiff breeze. And he got it. The problem now is to find a market for the market stalls in qur new market house. Before Ak-Sar-Ben and his crew take to the road they will have to make sure that the road will take them, Fine words butter no parsnips. The Turk will have to cough up something nore substantial than hot air. Having taken two lessons at law- making from the gallery of the British Parliament, our new congressman is ready to enter upon his duties at Wash- ington. —————— It is just the misfortune of Omaha's tail enders that they could not be one of the ball teams put out of business for the rest of the season by that rallroad wreck. Vesuvius continues to erupt “in all its grandeur.” It remains now for some en- terprising American impressario to get exclusive gate privileges and sell spec- tators’ tickets at the door. Senator Clark of Montana has entered public denial of the storles about his al- leged matrimonial entanglements. Sen- ator Clark, however, has not yet had to deny that he s candidate for vice presi- dent. Andrew, Carnegie is about to sall for Europe again. Mr. Carnegle seems to have no consideration whatever for the poor mendicants who will have to put double postage on their letters asking funancial assistance. eE———— Omaha is supplying Kansas City and Bt. Louls with ice to make up the shortage there caused by the floods. The Missourl towns might reciprocate by supplying Omaha and vicinity with a little beat to make up the deficiency. Editor Stead says that the British gov- erument during the war against the Boers was “a government withont braivs.” This is probably the only ex- planation that will account for its fail- ure to impress Mr. Stead into the service as prime minister. Colonel Bryan has cancelled the dates Le had arrunged to speak in Ohio in con- Juretion with Tom L. Johnson, but in order that the public may not be disap- pointed Mr. Johnson will fill the engage- wents alone. Mr. Johnson should be quite able to speak for both of them. emm—— The announcement that the owners of the site heretofore covered by the half- baked brick block of anclent and dilapi- dated store buildings on Douglas street will erect a substantial three-story brick, stone and plate glass office and store bullding may be gratifylng to building contractors and mechanics em- ployed in the building trades, but a three-story block is nothing to shout over In these days of sky scrapers. It is a little premature even for preliipinary steps to commemorate ap- propriately the induction into office of the first territorial governor of Ne- braska, which is said to have taken place on October 18, 1854, somewhere oh the border of the blank cxpanse of uniphabited terrifory designated as the “Groat Amerivan Desert.”” No serious objection can, however, be raised to the eslection of October 18, 1804, as Ne- braska day at the Bt. Louls exposition. ASSAILING THE PRESIDENT. The hostility of the trusts to President Roosevelt is shown in the persistent ef- forts of the leading trust organ and de- fender of monopoly, the New York Sun, to create sentiment, particularly among the moneyed interests, ngfinst the presi- dent. In a recent issue that paper, said: "“He has made himself the idol of or- ganized labor, and especially of the pro- fessional leaders of labor, the men whose trade is agitation and whose tools are strikes. He has joined labor unions. He has consorted with walking dele- gates. He has ignored lawlessness and the overthrow of liberty and has ar- railgned the employer 'at an arbitrary bar.” And the Sun declared that he has advantaged no one other than himself in his umbition to be elected president. It is true that Mr. Roosevelt has said that he belleved In organized labor, but he har also declared that there is noth- ing sacred in the name itself and that both organized labor and organized capi- tal must refrain from arbitrary or tyran- nous interference with the rights of oth- ers, In his last message to congress President Roosevelt sald: “Organized capital and organized labor alike should remember that in the long run the in- terest of each must be brought into pub- lic harmony with the interest of the general public, and the conduct of each must conform to the fundamental rules of obedience to the law of individual freedom and of justice and fair dealing toward all. Every employer, every wage- earner must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others.” Every fair-minded man, whether capi- talist or wage-earner, will acquiesce in this, for it is absolutely in accord with American prineiples, with the principles that are the basis of our institutions. The fact that the president, as was his predecessor, {8 an honorary member of a trades union, did not influence his de- cision in regard to the recent trouble in the government printing office, which wns against the assumption of the union, or deter him from asserting the prineiple that there must be no discrim- Ination respecting employes of the gov- ernment on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor organiza- tion. The statement that Mr. Roosevelt “has ignored lawlessness and the overthrow of liberty and has arraigned the em- ployer at an arbitrary bar,” is utterly without truth or justification. What he did to bring about a settlement of the anthracite coal strike was done in the interest. of peace and was heartily ap- proved by the intelligent and unpreju- diced public judgment. It undoubtedly would have been more satisfactory to the coal operators if the president had sent a military force to their assistance, instead of calling upon them, not arbi- trarlly but in the name of the public interest and welfare, to submit the con- troversy to arbitration. The president's course in this matter established a most valuable precedent and its advantage to the country has been inestimable. Attacks such as that of the Sun upon Mr. Roosevelt will do him no harm with the masses of the people. On the con- trary, the more bitterly the organs make war on him the firmer will grow his hold upon popular confidence. ep——— A TREASURY DEPARTURE. It is stated, apparently with authority, that Secretary Shaw is preparing to re- lieve the money market in case of an cmergency arising and in order to do 80 has set aside the receipts, from in- ternal revenue since July 1, amounting to about $40,000,000, which it is pro- posed to deposit in national banks. Héretofore when money from this and miscellaneous sources was turned over to government depositories it was. done directly, the funds not going first into the treasury, it being held that moneys once paid into the treasury could not be paid into the banks. Secretary Shaw, it appears, takes the view that the re- ceipts from Internal taxes and miscel- laneous sources, if kept apart from cus- toms receipts, which cannot be depos- ited In banks, may be diverted at any time to the government depositories, and he is supported in this by the law officers of the department. ‘While this involves a departure from the practice of years, it seems to be an entirely reasonable view. It simply means that the secretary of the treasury | has the same right to deposit internal | revenne receipts from the treasury, these being kept separate from customs recelpts, as though they were merely in the designated depositories on their way to the sub-treasuries. There seems to be no sound reason why money which is allowed to be deposited in the banks before going into the treasury should not be available for such deposit from the treasury. The only excuse for the system that has been observed is the fact that the internal revenue and mis- cellaneous receipts were merged with the customs receipts, but BSecretary Shaw has had them separated. The preparations thus being made by the secretary of the treasury to aid the money market in the event of a strin- geney will have a good effect in sus- taining the financial and business con- fidence of the country. Whether or not it will have a tendency to stimulate speculation and revive stock inflation may depend a good deal upon the way in which Secretary Shaw proceeds. It is to be expected that he will as far as possible avold doing anything likely to promote speculation, that in depositing government funds with banks he will be guided by what appears to be the requirements of legitimate business, but it is conceivable that even with the most careful concern in this regard there may yet be some encouragement given to speculation. The Wall Street Journal says: “The secretary will draw a line of digtinction between the needs of business and the desires of the specula- tive interests. He-will pour $40,000,000 of treasury money into the banks, if that s necessary to save the business of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: the country from disaster, but he will not pour a dollar into the banks for the purpose of promoting a speculative in flation.” This undoubtedly is an en tirely safe statement. Secretary Shaw is properly solicitous that the legitimate business interests of the country shall be cared for and that there shall be no disturbance that might impair the gen- eral prosperity, but he can be relied upon to give no direct ald to specula- tion. A DECEPTIVE MANIFESTO. The second manifesto issued by the Omaha Electric Light company in the disguise of a paid editorial for an ama- teur society sheet and reproduced as a paid advertisement in Omaba's twin yellows is as delusive and deceptive as the prospectus of a get-rich-quick promoters’ scheme. We are assured at the very outset that the proposal for monopolizing the public lighting in the city of Omaha will be one of such unusual breadth and liberality that all talk of a munici- pal lighting plant might as well be abandoned at once, because it would be impossible for the city to build, equip and maintain a plant except at a great loss to the taxpayers. In support of this assertion we are invited to read the report of the speclal committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce on the proposed municipal electric lighting plant for that city, in which the con- clusion is reached, backed up by fig- ures, that it would be very unwise in- deed for Cleveland to embark in any such undertaking. A partial truth is very often worse than a downright falsehood. It is true that a pamphlet has been issued purporting to represent the consensus of opinion of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in opposition to municipal ownership of electric lighting, but the pamphlet is discredited by the great mass of the citizens of Cleveland who will vote on the proposed issue of bonds for the establishment of a municipal lighting plant next week Tuesday. It is openly charged in Cleveland that the signers of the Chamber of Commerce pamphlet are heavy users of electric light and power, who are getting secret rebates from the electric lighting -com- pany, and naturally prefer private to public ownership, so long as they enjoy an advantage over the other electric light and power patrons. The climax of the second manifesto is, however, embodied in the following declaration: The citizens of Omaha, quick to distrust any proposition emanating from the editor of The Bee, are beginning to look carefully into the merits of the plan proposed by the electric light people, for the very reason that it has met its chief opposition in that newspaper. The most vivid object iesson is the map hung in the window of the Mil- waukee rallroad office. Since when has The Bee or its editor been distrusted in matters that relate to Omaha's welfare or prosperity? Will Mr. Nash and his pald satellites point out a single instance in which The Bee has betrayed the interests of Omaha for mercenary gain or political advantage? What projects or schemes detrimental to Omaha has The Bee ever advocated or encouraged, and when has it ever failed to sound the alarm when jobbers, contractors and boodlers have elther singly or in combination sought to raid the public treasury? Concede to Mr. Nash and his as- sociates the right to make any proposal they see fit, what right has he, or they, to impugn the motives of The Bee in opposing their projects or proposals? ‘What right have they even to insinuate that there is distrust among the repu- table, honest citizens of Omaha in The Bee's integrity of purpose? It is a mat- ter of record and history that The Bee advocated municipal ownership of pub- lic utilities years before the advent of Mr. h into his electric lighting com- pany. It is a matter of notoriety that the last spring's campaign was fought out on that issue and that the mayor and council were elected on a municipal ownership platform. The overwhelming majority of the citizens of Omaha have favored municl- pal ownership, not so much because they expected to make great savings, but because the public utllity corpora- tions, and especially the electric lighting company, have tampered with our city councils and city officlals and have made local self-government almost a farce. It is an open secret that the electric light- ing company had on its payroll members of the last city councll and men who held clerical positions in the city hall. Municipal officers and councilmen have been repeatedly carried over the Mil- waukee railrond on excursions either at the expense of the rallroad company or the electric lighting company, and these insidious methods of bribery have de- moralized our municipal government to such an extent that the people would be willing to pay two prices for their lights rather than submit to further extensions of lighting contracts procured by cor- rupt agencles. Another reason why the people of Omaha distrust the enticing proposals of the electric light company is because it has not lived up to its contract here- tofore. Its pretended 2,000-candle power arc lamps until very recently have not come up to a 500-candle power stand- ard, and in spite of all complaints this imposition continued until the scheme of extension was brought to the forefrant. One amazing thing in connection with this proposed monopolization of the public lighting is, Why should the elec- trie lighting company seek an extension of its contract at a very much reduced rate now when its present contract still has three years to run? On that subject more light will be wanted than we have yet had. . E—— It is said that the paymaster general will renew a rvecommendation In his forthcoming report that army officers be allowed to leave part of thelr pay on deposit with Uncle S8am and receive in- terest thercon until it is drawn out to meet other demands. The adoption of ! | keeping. this recommendation would be the same ax creating a government savings bank for the exclusive benefit of the army of- ficers, and while no serlous objection can be made there Is no good reason why such a practice should be restricted to £o narrow an area, If the govern- ment Is to accept deposits at interest at all it should establish postal savings banks and take care of all the money in limited amounts offered for its safe- Every argument for the de- posit scheme for army officers and many more, too, will be equally potent for the postal savings bank. Every candidate for nomination on the county ticket at the coming repub- lican primaries will be requested to agree in writing not to become a can- didate against the republican nominee in cdse he loses out. The obligation to abide by the result in such a contest should be as morally binding on the participants without the written pledge as with it. It should be as binding on candidates who sought nominations in the republican judicial convention as it will be on those who seek preferment in the coming county convention. E———— If there were any nonpartisanship about the fusion nomines for supreme judge, just put it down that the World-Herald would never be found supporting him.—Omaha Bee. What about the World-Herald's advice to democrats to nominate for the dlstrict bench Judges Day, Estelle, Dickinson, Read and Baxter, every one of them repub- licans ?—World-Herald. The World-Herald's advice is simply a plece of fiypaper heavly coated with nonpartisan molasses, but mighty few republican fiies will be caught on Sulll- van taffy. It is altogether too trans- parent. The Army and Navy Register takes it as a good omen that permission has been given to the officers on military duty in the Philippines to indulge in hunting expeditions. As long as the of- ficers were hunting for Filipinos there war no necessity for them to organize a hunt for birds and wild game. If the hunting permission will avoid the neces- sity of further fighting it will be cor- dially approved outside of military circles. emm——— ‘Will History Repeat Itwelf, Philadelphia Record. In the democreztic state convention of Nebraska, Willlam J. Bryan was not inaptly compared to Hannibal. It was in his third campaign that the C. general was driven from the democratic Rome. Cash Value of Aftections. Helena Record. It is coming to be understood that the man or woman whose outraged feelings can be soothed with cash or its equivalent is not often the kind of man or woman who has any feellngs worth considering. Honor in exchange for cash. It doesn't sound well and common sense jurors and judges are addfig to the welght of evi- dence that the exchange of the one for the other is not to be encouraged. —_—— Fusion Presages Confu St. LoulsGlobe-Democrat. Ex-Senator Allen-has discovered that he is not such & blg personage in the populist party as is Mr. Bryan. When Allen, at the Denver conference a short time ago, declared that the pops had quit fusing with the democrats he did not take the precaution to consult Bryan first. That popo-dem alliance In Nebraska is likely to he followed by coalitions of the same sort wherever any of the pops remain. There will be halycon and vociferous times in the democratic national convention of 1804. Right Man for the Place. Philadelphia Record. General Wright, who will becoine gov- ernor general of the Philippines when Mr. Taft shall succeed Secretary Root, has been for some time deputy governor, and was acting governor for some months. He has the advantage therefore of complete know- ledge of the situation, and has already proved his abllity to fill this very im- portant place. The country, therefore, has the assurance that the high sense of public duty and the iIntelligent regard for the interests of the natives which have thus far distinguished our administration oft the tslands will continue to characterize our management of this remote dependency. ENGLISH RAILROADS AND OURS. and Disadvantages Pointed Out. Leslie's Weekly. Tt is the current bellef that our American raliroads are vastly superior to the roads of every other country in the world, and so they are in most respects, but not in all. Our baggage check system ig a great con- venlence which forelgn roads em un- accountably slow to adopt, and we supply travelers with many comforts and conveni- ences not to be found elsewhere. But in the very important element of safety English roads are much superior to our own. Re- cent statistics have been published showing that scarcely a single fatality to employes occurred on the English roads last year, whereas the death list of rallroad employes in this country ran up Into several thou- sands. Fast rallroad travel is attended with more peril with us than in European countries. This is because our lines of rail are not defended as they are abroad. In England, for Instance, the rallroad is closely fenced or walled, and generally runs in a sunken way or along an embankment. Where it goes through a town it does so by means of subways and tunnels, and at almost every point the road crossings are effected on bridges. Where a grade cross- ing exists it is carefully watched and strongly guarded by gates and watchmen. A train can run for 100 miles on one of those English roads without encountering ob- stacles or incurring damages. In our open country the defenses are so few that the engineer 18 kept under strong tension all the time. American companies are more considerate to their patrons in one essential than the forelgn companies are. They ocontrive through trains between important points, and this enables us to promise the running of long distance trains In the future at a better rate of speed than that on the Eng- lish roads. In England, for example, it is a general custom to send trains on runs only between the principal cities, and at each one of these cities the traveler gets out and waits for another train to be made up. There are through trains from London to Liverpool, and from London to Edin- burgh, but if one wants to go to Durham, for example, he may have to change four or five times, albeit the way is as straight as that from New York to Washington. Recently the English have been running some pretty fast trains, but our system has so many advantages that after the abolition of grade crossings—a reform that is already beginning—we shall unquestionably run the fastest passenger trains in the world, and run them o comfort and safety. Advantages TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1903. DOINGS IN THE ARMY, Items of Interest Culled from Army and Navy Register. The plans for the maneuvers at Fort Riley may have to be changed somewhat in detail on account of the recent floods in that section. Some of-the roads and bridges have not been restored since the disasters wrought by the glements. It is to execute a le with farmers whose prop- erty i likely to be occupied by the troops and Ly these means it will be possible to [cxpensive trading-stamp ldea and they will pay damages for injuries Inflicted during |see profits, already small, the cxerctses. Otherwise such claims would | have to awalt a special appropriation from |Imate business that confines its advertis- congress. The present prospect Is that thers will be at Fort Riley four rom;.me!logmmnm newspapers will win In the long regiments of infantry, the Sixth, Twenty- | second, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-first, with | dreamed of. a part of the Twenty-second and Twelfth regiments of that arm. In addition there will be cavalry from Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley and Fort Reno, the batterles stationed there, a battalion of engineers from Fort Leavenworth and detachments of signal corps and hospital corps men. The military information division of the general staff is issuing a quarterly list for the benefit of army officers who desire to know something of a military lliterature of the war in its contemporaneous form With this end in view the division will publish once in three months a list of publications, official and otherwise, which bear in direct or Indirect degree upon the military service. The traveling recruiting parties will go on a new basis on September 14. There will be five of these parties in the fleld and the {tinerarfes are made out to cover the period from September 14 to March 6 of next year. Party No. 1 will visit cities in Connecticut, eastern New York, Pennsylvania, Ohlo and Michigan; party 2 will visit cities in Ohio, Michigan, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota and South Dakota; party 3 will visit mostly southern towns; party 4 will visit towns in the middle section and will follow party 1 In Connecticut and eastern New York; party 6 will visit western and southern towns, preceding party 2 and following party 3 at these places. A publication of considerable value to the army In the joint maneuvers this summer has been the “identification chart” similar to that published last year. This chart was prepared and was distributed by the military information division of the gen- eral staff on designs and dita furnished by the Navy department. The chart gives an outline and the distinguishing charac- teristics of the various ships of the navy which took part in the program 'this sum- mer together with an indication of the “vitals” of each vessel and the statistics relating to dimensions, armament and other pertinent information. Quartermaster General Humphrey has established some rules to govern the pro- motions of employes flling classified posi- tions In the quartermaster general's de partment. The advancements will be made wholly on the basis of merit, and officers are instructed to cause the preparation of semi-annual reports in regard to each employe embracing such qualifications as attendarce, ability, adaptability, habits and application, the latter having to do with diligent, faithful and close attention to duty. Under the heading of habits, General Humphrey remarks: “In estimating habits consideration should be given to mobriety, integrity, sub- ordination, cheerful and zealous obedience to orders and regulations, and promptness and courtesy In all the relations of officlal | business. The rating will be made in the manner prescribed for abllity. Insubor- dination, dléregard of regulations, frequent tardiness, drunkenness on duty, or any conduct prejudicial to the good order and discipline of an. office should be made the subject of special inquiry and action as directed in regard to absence without leave.” Army officers who are familiar with the situation in the Philippines find a very g0od sign of island pacification in the order {ssued by General Wade, permitting officers to indulge in hunting. This Is an indication that the untraveled portions of the archipelago are becoming safe for the pursult of game, of which there is sald to be plenty, although most of it compara- tively little known, partly because hunting has been a perilous diversion and partly because officers have not had the time to g0 on such expeditions. One of the best results of hunting at home in the days when we had a frontler was that officers and enlisted men who were afforded this opportunity were required to make reports of their observations, and, whenever pos- sible, maps of the country traversed. This idea will prevail in the Philippines, prob- ably with such productive results as to furnish full and accurate military informa- tion of the new country. The privilege of obtaining hunting leave, which is not to be charged up against an officer as ordi- nary leave, s with the understanding of this return for the favor. That the coun- try has been previously passed -over and mapped will'not relleve officers from mak- ing additional reports, it being reallzed that much valuable information can come from personal observation. The army regulations, which formerly applied to hunting leaves granted officers in the states will be extended to the same condi- tion in the Philippines. Of birds there are a great varlety in the Philippines, es- pecially snipes, a specles of plover and ducks. There s also a small deer in cer- tain parts of the fsland and of the big game there fs the wild earabao, which ought to afford sufficlent sport for the most daring huntsman. POPULISTIC PROGRAM. Proposed Pl for “Doing” Demoecratic Party Next Year. Chicago Chronicle (dem.). One M. F. Harrington, who, singularly enough, is credited with being the leader of the populist party in Nebraska, a state which has the honor of embracing Mr Bryan among its citizenship, confirms opinjons recently expressed in these col- umns as follows: 1. Mr. Bryan will undertake to dictate the next democratic nomination and the probability is that.he will favor Charles A. Towne, a republican. 2. If Mr. Bryan finds himself outnumbered in the democratic convention he will joln with the populists in nominating Towne as a third candidate. 3. While Mr. Bryan has not openly ad- vocated national ownership of raflroads and other socialistic and populistic theories of the kind, it is belleved that he will soon declare in favor of them, for he has been careful never to say anything in opposition thereto, 4. Mr. Bryan has done more to elect popu- 1ist senators, congressmen and state officers than any other man, and the populist therefore, will not hesitate to array them- selves under his standard. For some reason Mr. Harrington neglected to state that Mr. Bryan is now a plutocrat also, and hence is in a position to supply the sinews of war for a campalgn such he has outlined. 1t & scheme to purchase the raflroads with 45-cent dollars could be devised to the satisfaction of the prosperous lecturer of Lincoln there ousht to be at least ten years more of “Chautauqua work” in it the plannea | WOUld be calied “ring rule and bosstsm." | PERSONAL NOTES, King Peter has spunked up & bit and Crete Vidette-Herald: Two men from |proposes to take a hand in the future kill- Douglas county represented 100 delegates | ings in his builiwlck. at the populist state convention, and the | A murkish war will not interfers any democratic central committee of Douglas | witn the Turkish cigarette trade, evem it county selected the delegates to the demo- | qvery ncro of Turkish ground shall be cratlc state conventon. 1t the republi-|jaiq waste. cans should do a trick of that sort it| w0 counam 1y giving big Ainners at his country place. President Roosevelt ought to Inaugurate & series of midsummer clam bakes. Tommy Russell, one of the earliest and most famous of the “Little Lord Fauntle- roy” galaxy, 1s now a prosperous fire insur- ance man. Bismark's monument for the new Berlin ' cathedral has at last attained its final shape. The Iron Chancellor 18 to be repro- sented as a German knight of the middle ages. David K. Goss, a former superintendent of the public schools of Indianapolls, who has established an Amerioan college in Strassburg, Alsace, fs visiting his homo city and is enthusiastic over the success of his German institution. The emperor of Germany has added his fitty-fourth residence to the fifty-three he already owns by buying the estate of Damm-Muehle, called the Peari of Braden burg, for $300,00. It was owned by a county squire, Von Mollank, and will ba rebuilt and converted into & hunting castle. Orders have been issued by the Navy department placing Rear Admiral Ben- Jamin P. Lamberton in command of the South Atlantlo station, to relleve Rear Admiral George W. Summer, who is or- dered home to be retired In December. Admiral Lamberton has had no sea servics since November, 18%, when he returned with Admiral Dewey on Olympia from Manfla. TALK, OF THE STATE PRESS, ' Nebraska City Tribune: Lincoln mer- chants have again adopted the foollsh and diminish without any Increasing volume of trade. A legit- Ing expenses to a liberal patronage of | run over all the fly-by-night schemes ever North Platte Tribune: In a few things, t least, Nebraska stands at the head. Che largest alfalfa fleld—5,000 acres—in the world 1s at Ames; the largest barn In the, United States is in Dodge county; the| largest county in any state Is in Nebraska, | and no state has as many miles of any | one river as has Nebraska in the Platte river. It can algo be said that in western Nebraska the quality of sugar beets' and alfalfa grown stands at the head. West Point Republican: The Nebraska division of the national populist party evidently takes no stock in the Denver manifesto against fusion, despite the pres- ence at that historical gathering of several Nebraska celebrities. As predicted in these columns, the pops and demo-pops had thetr long-distance phone in working order and dished up a full-fledged fusion ticket, Sullivan and all. Each side of the com- bination will now still have to worry alon not exactly knowing which end is to swal- low ‘the other. Falls City Journal: The Lincoln papers have formed & bad habit. Every day they run about a column each of raflroad ru- mors that are very startling and would be highly important if they were only true. One day they will start out by saying the | Lincoin hotel is to be made into a union depot, or that a few alterations will be made at the state house, which is to be transformed Into a railroad machine shops, or that the Burlington contemplates bufld- ing a line from Pecks Grove to Havelock, via the penitentiary. The reader follows all the detalls with breathless Interest down to the last paragraph, where he finds that the general superintendent has| been Interviewed and states that it fs all | 1YD news to him and that there is nothing| She—The paper says In it. his guests was POINTED REFLECTIONS, When a 4'"‘ tells a young man that she ed herself for joy over somethin, f he is fresh, he answers: ‘I would gladly haye done that for you."—Somerville Jour- t make me believe an opal s an unlucky stone. 1 was wearing one when I first met Henry Treme"1t_certainly brought good luck-- to you. What was Henry wearing?"'—@hi- cago Tribune, “I couldn't find any wild flowers, Miss Jane, but I have a pecullar lichen for you. ”Ol'l|‘I Vilite, This Is so sudden.”—Brook- 0. is method of re- uite unconven- " "1 wonder what that means. He—It means sim ‘ply that he is boorish. but has plenty of money.—Philadelphia Press. THE NEGRO IN BUSINES Opportunities Wait Upon the Ener- setle and Thrifty Worker, 8an Francisco Call. Despite the attacks made upon him by a discontented class of negroes, Booker Washington continues to hold the first place among those to whom the more thrifty and wiser negroes turn for advice and counsel. At the recent convention of “The National Negro Business Men's League” at Nashville he was the principal speaker and was recelved with an earnest- ness which must have more than com- pensated him for the harsh treatment he recelved from some of his race on his recent visit to Boston. 1t Is worth noting as an evidence of the better sentiment with respect to the negro which prevalls in the south that the con- vention was held at the state capitol upon an Invitation given by the legislature. As the legislature is composed almost wholy of whites, the giving of the Invitation is a proof that the rabld hostility expressed by Senator Tillman and a few other politi- clans does not ‘truly represent southern sentiment, at least so far as the negro worker and business men are concerned. ‘Washington of course repeated his well known counsel of work and patience as the only means of solving the problem of the negro in the United States. In the course of his address he said: “We shall succeed in winning our way into the confidence and esteem of the Amerlcan people just in pro- portion as we show ourselves valuable to the community in which we live, in all the common Industries, in commerce, In the welfare of the state and in the manifesta- tion of the highest character. The com- munity does not fear as a rule the vote of the man, no matter what his color, who Is a large taxpayer. It is not the negro who owns a successful business or works at a trade who is charged with crime. While we are in many cases surrounded with dis- advantages, when we compare our condition and opportunities with those of the Jews in many parts of Europe, it is easy to see that almost every opportunity denfed the Jews is open to us. The greater the diffi- culties to be overcome, the more strength we shall gain by succeeding. Every house owned, every farm well cultivated and every bank account, every store, every tax receipt we possess, is one influence which will operate tremendously in our favor.' ‘The statement that the negro in the south, despite all the disadvantages under which he labors, is better off than the peasants and Jews In many countries of Europe is fully justified by the facts. There are no limitations put upon the negro in the south as a worker and as a property owner, and as land is cheap and opportunities for work abundant, even though wages are small, the more thrifty among the negroes are pros- pering. Starting without an acre of land, without a dollar, without experlence in the responsibilities of freedom, the race as a whole has made a notable advance in the accumulation of property and some of the abler men have hecome wealthy. Along these lines, then, the negro can hope to ad- vance to a position of power in the com- munity that will enable him to command a respect for his rights of all kinds. “She was winning everything until ona day she accldentally fell in the water with her bathing suit on.” “‘And then ‘‘Well, she seem to suffer & completo reversal of form. Puck. Patient—I seem to o be a little bauer, doc- Il short of breath air, _and patience, Philadelphiy o, we'll stop that altogether. Ledger. George Washington was asked why he crossed the Delaware on the ice. “‘Because,” he answered, I had crossed the Ohio, history would have mixed me up with Eliza. Here again he dembnn(rfllefl his wonder- ful foresight.—New York Sun. Nell—-Miss Oldun is convllut‘ln‘, 1 hear. B;llo-—!.!, 1 think she was scared back to_life. Nell-How do you mean? Belle—I belleva her attention was to the fu:l that lf she died her exac! ‘would be 8!'. on the coffin pla ‘Phllldelphll tholic Standard. “T understand old a4 Skinflint has got re- tbie.” o Toaliy think o e, At Sidnfint nna Feiigion have come fomethak atoall I think (U akte to apy Giat has cortathy 1a Dy Pt hate that nlmon has got him."—Chicago Post. “Horace,” coyly asked his Jouns wite, you sorry you marrfed mi orry. pern" Feponded. et elderly but still_youthful looking husband, husiasm: Cin sweethess, modesty: and knowing how to make light ou're the best wife, by George, I ."—Chicago Tribun TO MISS LOU DILLON, led o on.” poa. Do Lampton, in New York Sun. m unre. Whoa there, Lady Lou, Your record of 3 Flat Hbows where you are at. And the others? Oh say, Lou, They l|ll t ln it with you. Has made wrecl Of the so-called superior sex, And a lady lea Don't ll bust lll the male creeds? And make you want to go out And shout, And rip and And get full nd ‘swear n.flml the line, Broke The record, the weaker sex spoke In thunder tones that She tter t';ll’ll' than Hi my! You are to trot. Anfl zgu are a lady, toe; Cool Days Create thoughts of heavier apparel. Our Fall Styles are in and can be seen on request—but there are so many bar- | gains of broken lots and sizes that are keeping with the weather and so greatly reduced in price that you might feel tempted. It’s a man’s ambition to look well at all times— and he rarely objects to doing so at smallest cost possible, “No Clothing Fits Like Ours.” RBrowning: King-§-(© for him, to sav nothing of attorney's fees for the promotion. R. S. Wilcox, Manager.