Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NEPTEMBER 14, 'I‘m: OMAHA DALy BEE B ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Pu m ISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly r.m (without Sunday), One \enr $4.00 Daily Bea und Sunday, One 6.00 Biistrated Bhee, One. Foar: . 2.00 Bunda One Year. - 400 Batur: One Year - 160 Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVER E’mh Bea (without > D BY CARRIER. unday), per copy. aily Bee (without Sunday), per week...l: Jaily Bea (including Sunday), per week..1 Bunday Hee, per copy... Evening Bee (without Sunday), 23 er week b Evening Bee (including Sunday), per ek i B Complalnts of irregularit should be Bddrassed 1o Clty Cireutation De- partment. OFFICES. QmahaThe Bee Bullding South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Lfth and M Streets. Council Blute—i0 'Pear! Stroct. cago—1640 Unity Buil o Fork a0 vk Row Buflding. Washington- 601 Fourteenth Street. . CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations relating to news and edi- torlal matter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, express or postal order yable to The Bee Publishing Company, Drly 2-cent stamps accepted in payfent of mail accounts. m.m.F hecks, except, on Omaha or eastern exch: d. I BEE PUBLABHIN STATEMENT OF CIR J..A'NON Btate of N ohnuk- Douglas Pr!:ll;rri being dul. orn, says ublis n‘com ny, being duly sw that the ct\ln?‘numlwr of full and 'com- plete copies of The Dail and Sunday Bee printe Morning, Evening during the month of August, 0%, was s {onow- 29,010 200 EEEERE S emnananen ‘Total Less unsoid and returned coples. Net total sales. .. Net averago sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and swnrn lo before me this aist day of August, A, b 10 (Beal) Notary Publlc S ———————E—Y PARTIES LEAVING THE OITY. Parties leaving the eity at any time may have The sent to the regularly by motifylug The Bee Busin office, in person or by mall. The address will be changed as often as desired. —_— In spite of the strenuous efforts on the part of the prohibitionists, Nebraska has gone wet this year, ’ The democratic nominee for governor of Towa is trying hard to.cohvince him- self that he is really running for office. As @ financlal verlture - the direct primary experiment inaugurated by the republican county committee has proved a colossal success. 3 E——— ‘Will the school board keep out of politics in the impending county cam- paign? Will a duck stay out of water in the summer time? e * Injunetions, counter injunctions and mandamuses are still all the rage, Just @8 fast as one iujunction is dissolved two others are being issued. em———— It did not require a speech of welcome from Nebraska's vice presidential can- didate to assure the president of the Great Western that he is welcome in Omaha. Pictorial illustrations in the shape of photo cards and ten-dollar-per-insertion portraits are now to be supplemented by ten-cents-a-line poetry, lauding the eandidate to the sky. Why not ask the federal courts to fssue a restraining order that will pro- hibit the earth from revolving around on its axis at the risk of being brought into court for contempt? e ‘Why should the Turk stop at the ex- clusion of soap made of ingredients that include the fat of the hog? Why allow such a needless luxury as soap to be brought into the realm at all? —— Senator Platt of Connecticut and Sena- tor Platt of New York age both recorded publicly now for President Roosevelt's renomination. This makes them a sena- torial pair, who, however, are not paired. L Next after the indictment of the al- leged postoffice crooks comes their prose- cution -and conviction. If the es aguinst them are good there will be no excuse for*not expediting the trials and finishing up the job. At any rate it should not be the government to ask for postponements. Nothing exposes the desperation of the democratic bunch down in Ohio so forei- bly as their persistent efforts to make political capital for themselves by ex- aggerating the ill health of Senator Hauna, If this offers them their only hope to win out the Ohio democrats must be in terrible straits indeed. ———— Bt. Louis banks insist they will reject the proposal of Secretary SBhaw for the deposit with them of §2,500,000 of the exposition appropriation Dbecause the security exacred would lmpose a burden. 1f they are not careful the Chicago banks may Jump in and take the custody of the wmoney. And wouldn't Bt. Louis squeal then. Notwithstanding the withering rebuff encountered In Nebraska, the attempt 1s to bLe wade to carry into execution the populist program embodied in the Denver manifesto, the flelds to be worked first by the national organizer being Missourf and Indiana. As ouly those who belleve in independent politi- eal action outside of the republican and democratic parties are to be invited to participate #n populist reorganjzation this cuts all of the Nebraska reformers off the invited lst RURAL CARRIERS' ORGANIZATION. The organization of the rural letter carriers into a national assoclation has two objects, with both of which the public should Me in hearty .sympathy The first purpose i to improve the con- dition of the rural mpil delivery and the second is to improve the condition of the rural mail carriers. The two go hand in hand, because the improvement of the service must follow from raising the standard of the servants. The rural mail delivery service has passed out of the purely experimental stage, yet much is yet to be done in the way of systematization and co-ordina- tion. The rapid development of the rural routes and the constant increase of the rural mail pleces handled wil entall more or less reorganization of the service, with a view to greater ef. ficiency and economy. The co-operation of the mail carriers in the accomplish- ment of this end will be of incalculable value and their united efforts will donbt- less be more intelligently directed through the agency of their associations than if left to act by themselves. With reference to the terms of em ployment and compensation of the car- riers some betterment must come as matter of course. A salary of $50 :1 month may possibly be adequate in some districts, but it certainly is insuffi- cient to keep a high grade of men at the work ‘without even a prospect of better recognition for years of faithful devo- tion to duty. Something in the nature of a classified service with a graded salary schedule must be the eventual solution. Incidentally, Nebraska has a right to feel complimented that the first presi- dent of the new national association should be taken from its corps'of rural mail carriers. President Cunningham is an active, wide-awake member of the department, with a clear comprehension of what the association wants to achieve as well as how to manifest its wishes, and his administration may confidently be expected to produce results. INTEREST (N CRUP REPORTS. At the present time there is undoubt- edly more interest in the crop reports than in any other matter which com- mands serious attention. Why this is tem can be devised and operated by which a practically accurate estimate can be made from year to year as to the amount and value of agricultural products of all kinds and it is.certainly most desirable that this shall be done. THE FUTURE OF OMABA. Under modern conditions of city build- ing the trend of industrial development and growth is toward the ecenters of commerce and industry. When a city has passed its 100,000 population mark its growth cannot be arrested, although it may be retarded. Omaha, South Omaha sna Council Bluffs are for all comnierclal purposes one city just as New Y Brooklyn, Jersey City And Hoboken are part of Greater New York, although they are separated by rivers and incorporated in different states. With a population exceeding 150,000, Greater Omaha Is now on the eve of still greater development., Located in the heart of the great American corn belt, the most prolific breadstuff-produc- ing region on the American continent, and enjoying the superior traffic faclli- ties of two transcontinental systems of railway west of the Missouri and a half dozen trunk lines through Iowa, besides being the northern terminus of the Wabash and Missourl Pacific, that afford direct railway communieation to the Gulf of Mexico, Omaha is peerless as a distribution center for trade terri- tory that exceeds three million in popu- lation, Its trade territory is not only con- stantly expanding, but steadily increas- ing in wealth and population. Beyond its natural trade territory, the jobbers of Omaha have reached out clear to the Pacific coast, and the products of its packing houses and distillery are ex- ported not only to the farthest of our posgessions, but to Japan and China as well, - The immediate and most paramount wants of Omaha are cereal mills and flour mills, elevators, glucose works, sugar refineries and other works that will fabricate the raw materials raised in the Missouri valley into finished pioducts for distribution and export. When these concerns are established Omaha will become a great grain mar- ket as well it already is a great gat- 8o everybody understands, since the pos- gible outcome of the crops is beyond all considerations the most important factor in the question of our material pros- perity. It is a simple matter to say that we are making progress and that all the indications are in favor of a con- tinuance of progress and prosperity, but it 1s absolutely necessary to measure up the conditions that are essential to the continuous promotion and advancement of our prosperity. In making such @ calculation there can be no doubt that the crop possibilities constitute the most important consider- ation. What the crops of the nation are to be is undeniably the commanding question of the time, which is being most’ thoughtfully “considered in every portion of the country. As now pre- gented there is nothing discouraging in the crop outlook. There may be dis- appointments in some directions. The hopes of certain localities will not be realized. This is the case in almost every year and the present'season is not wholly extraordinary. But what is to be still reasonably hoped for is a fair crop, with prices quite wp to if not a little beyond the average, which means the t our farmers will at least be as well repaid for thelr labors as in past years. This assurance ought to be satisfac- tory to our people, since it means that there will still be enough for our own wants and for whatever demand there may be from abroad, and that prices will be remunerative. The foreign ad- vices of an authentle character are to the effect that crops are considerably less than ordinary im most of the Euro- pean countries, which necessarily means a larger demand upon this country for breadstuffs. This may not Involve an increase of price for what we sell abroad, but it seems to at least assure a maintenance of the present prices, which at least would guarantee to our producers a umtlnunnu of existing profits. Thus the situation, as now presented, tle market and “meat-packing center. From any point of view the outlook for Omaha is growing brighter and more promising year by year and day by day. Here is the record boasted by an Ala- bama man who is heralded as one of the populist “old guard:” My first presldental vote was for Millard Fillmore. In 1560 I voted for John Bell. The greatest political bluhder in my life was made in 158, when I voted for Grover Cleveland. 1 did not vote in 1888. Tn 1802 I voted for Weaver. In 18% I reluctantly voted for Bryan and Watson. Was dis- gusted with Watson's treatment by the Bryan democrats and vdted for McKinley in 1900, There ought to be a good chance for this versatile voter to complete his re- demption by casting his ballot again next year for the republican nominee as exemplified in Theodore Roosevelt. Representatives of the commercial as- sociations of fifteen Wisconsin cities have formed a state organization to represent all the diversified industrial and mercantile interests of Wisconsin, with the object of promoting the mer- caiitile and manufacturing interests and to arrange for association with national bodies organized for similar purposes. Omaha and otber cities of Nebraska could profitably emulate the example set by the principal cities of Wisconsin. There is a wide field of usefulness for such an organization that will broaden from year to year with the development and growth of the state. . o————— Now we are told that the federal court will be asked td enjoin the Omaha police from enforcing the market ordinance, because it is alleged that it interferes with interstate commerce. If 'the federal courts are to hurl injune- tions against the venders of pumpkins, squashes and turnips just because they are raised in Towa and marketed in Ne- braska, why shouldn't the federal courts enjoin the sale here of Lake Michigan fish or of the bottled beer that made is from every point of view, one of most satisfactory and encouraging promise to our agricuitural producers and there- fore to the country at large, since the prosperity of the farmer is the basis of the general prosperity. OHANGS IN STATISTICAL METHODS, There has been a good deal of contro- versy in the last few years regarding the statistical methods of the Agricul- tural department, owing to the fact that the reports have been at variance with those of the census bureaw, and as a result it is reported that fmportant chauges are to be made in the methods of obtaining statistics, such a depa:ture being apparently absolutely necessary in order to obtain trustworthy results. It 18 perfectly obvious, of course, that there should be practical concurrence between the reports of the census bureau and the Agricultural department re- specting statistics In regard to matters common to the inquiries of both, the fact that this bas not been the case causing confusion and doubt which have been more or less disturblug v their Influence. What s evidently needed is a system that will enable each of these bureaus to obtaln the information required of them, so far as the crops are concerned, which will be so complete and authori- tative in character that no serious dis- pute respecting them can occur. In order to attain this there should be smh an arrangement between these bureaus as would permit their representatives to practically work together and yet under circumstances which would not neces- sarily permit any coflusion between them. It is said that an effort is to be made to briug about an arrangement ot this kind and thege can be no doubt in regard to its practicability. It would seel to be incoutrovertible that a sys- Milwaukee famous? It seems that the sensitive feelings of the late bandit, Frank James, have been so seriously wounded by the portrayal of his exploits on the stage that he Is appealing to the courts to stop by the infliction of heavy damages the use of his name by theatrijcal promoters. The former hold-ups of the James boys were at the point of the pistol, but they have now apparently decided to accept the more refined and clvilized weapons at hand in our judicial tribunals. Can anybody tell why three of the candidates for the district bench who were nomindted by the republican con- | vention as straight republicans are non- partisan, while the other four candi- dates, nominated by the same conven- | tion, are partisans? In other words, does a democratic endorsement of a republican make him & nounpartisan? The forecast prepared by the passen- ger department of the Unlon Pacific railroad of the prospective corn crops of Nebraska and Kansas is very ercour- aging—but there is a string tied to it that we must have at lehst four weeks more of corn-ripening weather, How Sweetly He Sings. Washingtoh Pos! ‘With a year's salary as the sultan's press agent paid to him In advance, Mr. Mor- comb of Iowa has already become con- vinced that “the Turkish race is infinitely superior to the mongrel races with which the Turkish government has to deal” In other words, “Whose bread 1 eat his song I'ising,” Anotlier Tralior to the Cause. Kansas City Star. John Breidenthal of Kansag, with an in- terest In el ven banks, must be assigned to a seat in the chariot that is rolling over the prostrate forms of the downtrodden popu- lace. with Charley Towne, ex-Governor Hogg, Senator Pettigrew and Jerry Simp- #on, not to speak of that gilded apostate from populism, Mme. Lease. There is no royal road to honor, but it seems that al- most anybody can get rich by hammering the money power, if they will only keep at it, and hammer real hard. Cruelest Cut of All Kansas City Star Pension Comriissioner Ware is the very last man in the whole country' who would ever have been suspected of going back on the widows—and the young widows at that. Oh, 'Gene! 'Gene! How could you do it? —_— New Style of Shaft. Pittsburg Dispatch, The mining industry appears to have done very well without a department of mines and a place in the cabinet. If the miners will confine thefr efforts to delving into the earth they will get along better than Ly worrying about a chance to dig into the national treasury Keeping Up with the New York Tribune. Voleanoes are girdling the globe with eruptions, and the Nebraska political crater is still in a state of violent activity, with rumblings and detonations, and thick clouds of pitchy smoke which darken demo- cratic counsel. Distarb Thelr Pleasures. Chicago Chronicle. One of the Berfin newspapers is inclined to fear that the presence of Rear Admiral Cotton’s squadron off Beyroot will “disturb the Mussulmans." It does appear to have had that effect to the extent of interrupting the followers of Mohammed in a pleasant little massacre. _— Dietary Qualifications for Office. Louisville Courfer-Journal It would seem as if the civil service com- mission was carrying its consclentious con- victions to an extreme in its efforts to ele- vate the standard of qualification in appll- cants for office, when jt makes the diet of an office seeker an object to his appoint- ment. It has actually rejected an otherwise competent man who wished a position in the Mobile postoffice, simply because he swallowed nalls, tacks and broken glase. Perhaps after a while Prof. Wiley of the embalmed beef department may suggest a menu which all applicants will be required to observe as a prerequisite to a certificate for office. Wireless Telegraphy to the Pole, Philadelphia Record. The announced determination of Lieuten= ant Peary to make another Jdash toward the north pole gives added interest 4o the suggestion of Signor Marconi that by means of wireless telegraphy it will be easy for a polar exploring party to keep in daily com- munication not only with its immediate base of supplies, but with its friends and the newspaper press it home. The prac- ticability of constan’ communication be- tween a desperate u_.enturer in the ice pack and helpers so stationed as to give ald upon emergent occasions certainly in- creases the chance' of successful Arctic exploration. Greater T the Government, Springfield Republican. The anthracite coal companies are resist ing the efforts of the United States govern- ment to look into their business. They have refused to give information asked for by the Interstate Commerce commission, and have becn supported in the refusal by one of the lower federal courti. This case has been carried up to the United States supreme court, and pending a decislon there, the coal roads have refused to fill in inquiry blanks sent 4o them by the UUnited States census office. They seem to think they are engaged .ID[C purely private busi- ness. That was the way they acted in re- iation to the strike, and the way In which they are now acting. It will prove In the end to be a public business. TENACITY OF A ;lc‘l‘lol. Paritan Burst of Eloguence Deficient in Truth. ‘Washington Post. The impression that the Puritans emi- grated to the United States in order to establish religlous liberty has been so widely. diffused and so sediously cultivated that it dies hard. That idea was promi- nent in the literature of the country during the first half of the last century, and still survives in the song and story of that pe- riod. For many years, and until very re- cent time, it constituted the staple of ora- tory on Forefathers' day. Some of the school readers of fifty or more years ago contained extracts from addresses based on that impression—utterances as full of elo- quence as they weré deficient in truth. But they were not lles, for there was no such intention to deceive. The orators and poets who glorified the Piigrim fathers for their ardent love for and devotion to liberty wer themselves decelved. As was Inevitable, the advance of educa- tion and the multiplication of books, mag- azines and newspapers checked the all-con- quering progress of that beautiful fiction. It could not stand the light of truth. The facts of history were fatal to its perpetu- ity. But it still survives in some quarters where its existence would not be suspected, it it did not proclaim itself. For example, the New York Commercial of September 2, in an editorial rebuking a mercantile house in Chicago for éurrendering to the demands of a.labor union, incidentally remarks: “The small band of Puritans who set sall for the inhospitable shores of America, and suffered indescribable hardships, made the sacrifice to keep alive that spark of liberty which was so nearly stamped out in Eu- rope. A great people are thelr descendants and a great nation owes its birth to them. | What must the spirits of John Alden, Elder ( Brewster, Miles Standish and Roger Wil- liams think of the spectaele presenmted in Chicago where lberty is allowed to perish on the threshhold of a commercial house powerful enough to make its influence feit around the world.” Our contemporary is just a little unfor- tunate in putting Roger Willlams Into that list. It would bg really interesting to know what were his reflection on “that spark of liberty” which the Puritans were Keeping alive while he trudged through the wilder- ness from the village of Salem to the site of the future city of Providence. As an in- teresting side-light on this theme we recall the recent effort to induce the Massachu- setts legislature to rescind the decree of its predecessor, *“The Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” banishing Roger Willlams from that jurls- diction. Whittler has toid u$ something of the sentiments of the Quakers, ‘'sore from their cart-tall scourgings and from the pll- lory lame,” and delvers in musty records have brought to light a hundred acts for the punishment of heresy passed by the devotees of Puritan fanatacism. s it true that “‘a great nation owes its birth to them?" Had the sons of the Cava- liers no share in that creation? Where was Virginia when “her old house of burgesses spoke out to Faneul! Hall? From what stock came George Wishington and Pat- rick Henry and the long list of patriot-he- roes in the southern colonies? It is true that the Puritans were strong, brave men, who did what they belleved to Be their duty. But they would have re- sented as & base libel the assertion that they came here to establish freedom of worship or any other freedom inharmon- fous with their convictions. The false im- pression paraded for thelr glorification would have met their detestation. It 1s now up to the Gevotees of the “ligh fantastic” to say whether the League of Dancing Masters is ‘it floor of reform. The bewlitching tw was pronounced a for the coming season. taken orchestra. More power to the nimble shins of the Let them not grow weary in the good work until every ballroom abom- Away Newports and Comuses, and What is the matter with a law restricting all terpsichorean ae- tivity to the good, old waltz, schottische, The professors utter ppearance of the square dance In the larger cities, “The Gilr 1 have long ago lapsed into As for grace, there is more of it In the trusty waltz than in all the new-fangled combinations put together, and if a man needs exercise there is noth- ing more calcuiated to limber up the joinis and set the blood to coursing than a well- tuned fiddle and a caller that knows his professors. ination is toned down or cast out, with your other irregularities! polka and quadrille? a feeble protest against the dis; where “‘Fisher's Hornpipe” and Lett Behind Me" innocuous desuetude. busin The street, Brooklyn, the police, fox terrier dog. that quarter. BSince the death of Mrs. May's husband, who was quite wealthy, the woman had ciftributed charity to all ‘who applied. Bhe had not been seen for at least a month and weeds had grown high in the usually well kept garden, where she formerly had spent much time. Finally, alarmed at her non-appearance, the neigh- bors notified the police, and the doors were broken open. The woman had been dead nearly a month, evidently from ratura} causes, but the little dog had never quitted his vigil and died from starvation. dow In New York, from the west, a feeling of homesickness, hand in a package: how much? I say. ‘Thirteen cents,’ goes back to work, and I go away. the postoffice the postmaster. Bllas?” He looked it government bonds to the boy? that frost is coming. Boy well?" the package. ‘Any writing In this?' ‘Just the socks? ‘Just them.' but 10 will go. How's crops’ transaction became a personal call ship. There is none of that in New York.' ““Why don't you try the old system on in New York?" “And give the clerk heart disease? much.” It is nothing unusual board as parting gifts. sengers. after the vessel gets past Sandy Hook. course, before the first meal. for exhibition, but the majority, sons for whom they were mtended. e such cases are exceptional. flowers are taken to the saloon. night with scows, spite of the vigllance of the watchmen they can open the doors of the Greene, to surround the docks with police. ce & ton or so. rupted they show fight and pull revolvers, but if a watchman comes upon them sud- the current of the river, & slate pencil, containing the two gr like powder—gray, New York reporters, and yellow according to others. They wouldn't know it flour of sulphur it the attendant didn't tell them it is radium, but they go away happy and contented. a dozen new playhouses, doors of as many new hostelries opened, not soen to close again night or day. The wonder as to where the guests come from to fill them may be left unsatisfied for & consideration of the source of their larger permanent population of competent employes. For the New Astor, the Knick- erbocker and the Belmont there will be required an operating staff numbering all told, trom chief clerk to scullery mald, seversl thousand at least American in the vital matter of dance programs. The league held a solemn gabfest in New York ie- cently and took two-steps or more on the tep Hartington Herald: terpsichorean outcast and the three-step waits and the five-step &chottische deeclared the fashionable dance The secretary of| tpy the league, hailing direct from Providence, | gtr intimates thaf no violent measures will be to drive the two-step from dance programs—a gracious concession, truly—but it will be kept in its proper sphere and not permitted to usurp the whole floor and the ootball tactics and grotesque ef- fects of the modern ballroom are poor affairs compared with gents chasses or swing on the corner. Balance all! Bwing your honey! Grand right and left! This, we submit, is the stuff. This Is the real thing. In a gloomy, old-fashiloned house in Dean who battered down the door, have found the body of Mrs. Margaret May lying on a bed in an upper room. At her feet lay the body of a .Until recently the old house had been a refuge for the poor of TALK OF THE STATE PR Lyons Sun: The farcical non-partisan democratie judiclal ticket will be caught t| under a snowslide, . Monroe Republican: Judge J. B. Barne: has shown himself well qualified for the supreme bench, his work as a member of the supreme court commission demonstrat- Ing his fitness for the position John L. Webster, the Nebraska candidate for vice presidential honors, is recelving all kinds of flattering encouragement from all parts of the coun- Roosevelt and Webster will make & strong team. Auburn Post: Tvery one who Is ac- quainted with Judge Barnes of Norfolk, the republican candidate for supreme juds speak of him in the highest terms both as a man and a jurlst. It is a pleasure to present such men to the people as a man whom they can vote for and never after- ward have any regrets for so doing. Rushville Recorder: As usual, according to the fashion of the press, Judge Barnes 18 a corporation tool, like every republican candidate that comes up, but it is noticed the great common sensed people don't take much stock fn that old, worn-out hue and ery. The trouble with the fushion press is they think they know it all until the poor dear people teach 'em’ different. Norfolk News: The time will soon be here for some of the fusion editors and or tors to claim the election of Judge Sullivan by a majority ranging from 10,000 to 100,000, and following that will come the time for the republicans to rudely shatter their pre- dictions. The one Is certainly a sign of the approach of the other, and Is anxiously awaited by an eager public. St. Paul Republican: By ralsing the cry of “raliroad tool” against Judge Barnes the democratic newspapers have added proof to the old saying that they learn nothing by experience. After the disastrous exposure of their gubernatorial candidate's relations with the rallroads last fall it was to have been expected that they would maintain silence on this painful subject. Springfleld Monitor: In the democratic Judicial convention In Omaha Saturday the bar nominees for the district bench, with the addition of a mame to fill a vacancy, was indorsed. The Monitor was never in favor of such & move, and can not* yet s where the democrats will be benefited. The delegates from this eounty were really not in favor of the scheme but there was no show for them in the convention, so they had to give in. Arcadia Champlon: The republicans have placed a state ticket in the field that the party can well be proud of. Barnes of Madison they have a candidate against whose long career as district judge nothing can be said. He is a man whom the party can point to with just pride. The “I never do business at a postofice win- sald a man who came “without going away with “Things are so cold and formal here, I ‘Merchandise only; snaps the clerk. And that's the end of it. He “Was it that way at home? 1 went into nd handed the package to ‘How much for that, Uncle over carefully. ‘What's up now, Henry? Sending a lot of ‘No, only a pair of socks his mother has knit him.' ‘I'll bet he'll be glad to get them, now ‘Yes, he s all right.' Then the old man welghed "No.' “Well, its about 10 centws Might be a little over, Thus every |the latter will be a candldate for attorney and ended with & genial glow of good fellow- Not for an Atlantic liner to go to sea with anywhere from $5,000 to $10,00 worth of cut flowers on It all depends on the prominence or popularity of the pas- Like every other New York lux- ury this one increases In proportion every year. The chief steward on one of the big White Star boats told how such an enor- mous quantity of flowers is disposed of They must be removed from the saloon, of An especlally elaborate piece is taken to the music room of the flowers are sent to the cabins of the per- 1t oc- donally happens that a lover who has some bunch of flowers of sentimental sig- nificance that he does not want the throng of passengers to see, has it sent to his lady love's cabin, sp that she will see It after the last bood-byes have been sald. But Most of the The harbor of New York, strange to say, 1s Infested with pirates, and the police have been put to a great deal of trouble to ex- | terminate them. Men crulse around in the visiting the various steamship docks where Imported merchan- dise Is unloaded, and snatch what they can. They often obtain valuable packages in Bome of them have duplicate keys by which sheds. Thousands of dollars’ worth of goods are lost every week in this way, but General the new chlef of police, declares that he will bréak up the practice if he has Coal pirates are even more bold and suc- ful, because it is difficult to protect the scows loaded with coal that are towed from the docks along the Jersey side of the Hudson to the New York side and some | times lie three and four In & line waiting to PR - be UMMl - They are usually wnuhed;wu‘l cal outfit on earth. Each will unani with great care, but the pirates sneak up and find little difficulty in stealing a half Sometimes if they are Inter- denly they usually bluff him off until they can cut their boat loose and creep out Into Crowds of people are flocking to the American museum of natural history in New York to see the little alr-tight glass tube, about an inch long and as thick as trom | will see the candidates for regents, Charles S. Allen of Lincoln and #illlam G. Whitmore of Doug- las county, are both good, clean, capable men and deserve the support of every re- publican. Blue Springs Sentinel: The real fusion n has no more use for a genuine o than & for a rebel during a war. Cap- tain Ashby of Beatrice found this out when he presumed to be a candidate for judiclal honors at the late fusion convention at Tecumseh. The only honey that is shown anybody by that organigation is to the bolting republican. He s at once, as it were, taken up 'nto the high mountain and shown the earth which he is informed is his for the simple asking, but which never materfalizes, if he will only continue to shout for reform. Kearney Hub: The Lincoln News talks voluminously regarding the political pos- sibilities of Judge Wall and Deputy Attorney General Norris Brown, and assuming that general next year, concludes that Wall is liable to cut him out of the nomination. As a matter of fact we have quite a number of citizens out this way who are of large po- Mtical stature—large enough for senators, judges, congressmen, attorney general or anything else the occasion may demand. 8o there {s not much probability of a clash be- tween these gentlemen, as the News would have us believe. York Times: Thero Is no limit to the possibllities of Nebraska. No one can set bounds to her wonderful productiveness. Under favorable clrcumstances her climate is almost tropical. Until a couple of weeks ago it seemed impossible that we would have any good corn in this part of the state. Today the the prospact is better than it has been for years. Ears that looked like popcorn then are large, splen- aidly filled and almost mature Several conservative farmers have told us that they will have from sixty to seventy bushels to the aere if the weather continues favorable a few days longer. It Is never safe (o pre- dict a short crop in this state until the deed is tully accomplished, Pender Republic: It Is interesting to ob- serve the different ways in which the fu- sion press treat Judge Sullivan's plea for decency in politics and for fair play toward a worthy rival. Some of them strongly !ntimate that the judge did not mean it, that it was only the usual amen- ities of the occasion. Some that are al- ways disposed to be falr have accepted the plea as made In good faith and cor- dially endorse the judge's position, and up- prove of his admonition. Inasmuch as Judge Sullivan twice was party to the ap- pointment of Judge Barnes upon the su- preme court commission there s no good reason to suppose that Judge Sullivan was not stating his real thought when he so heartily commended Judge Barnes. Crete Vidette-Herald: Fusion politicians | can play upon the credulity of the people but the rank and flle of the democratic and populist parties have the last chance in the game. If there is any good reason | for the existence of these two organizations | why on earth do they not stand up for their principles? They will meet in cong vention and solemnly resolve that theirs is the only true, evangelical, orthodex mously pass a resolution against both the other pagan organizations and the third resolve is one to fuse with the same much detested party. Down in Johnson county tour of the uncontrolled (fusion | nominees have withdrawn from the ticket The rank and file can see that the manipu- Jators of fusion conventions do not care a pleayune for principles and are governed solely, by an inordinate desire for the spolls of office. Thousands of honest democra and popullsts are getting everlastingly tired | of this horse play and will enter their protest against fusion on election day by s | yoting & stralght, clean republican ticket. of radium valued at $300. All they see in| the tube is a little substance (hat looks cording to some of the Out for the St Baltimore America The main difficulty that scems to be in the way of the Panama canal treaty is that Colombla wants the United States to fur- nish that ecountry with enough money to run the little government for the next ten The building of palatlal hotels keeps [ Y*4™ pace with that of theaters. The fall, —___—_" which will bring curtain risings at half Smeeze On, Yo Meroes. Minneapolls Journal. Look up and take coyrage, oh ye poor be- nighted sufferers from bay fever, for It ap- pears that & m&n mAy snecze and snecze and still be well. 8tr Jonathan Hutchinson has declared “When & man sneeces heartily he may know himself in the best of health, no person in poor health was ever known 10 sneeze.” The day may come when, by the aid of a little auto-suggestion, we may look upon this summer scour) iy & strenuous evidence of .,hounau health. Stop tearing your throat! One dose of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. PERSONAL NOTES, Walter Wellman declares that Peary will reach the North Pole this time. Mr. Well- man may be considered an excellent au. thority on what other pole-hunters can do. Outside of the Panama canal difficulties, further trouble is afoot in Colombia. The cobblers of Bogota are now refusing to mend North American shoes. Nobody knows, of course, how long this will last. Franklin Farrell, jr., the son of a Con- necticut milllonaire and a recent graduate of Harvard, has entered his father's foun- dry at Derby with the purposs of learning the trade of a foundryman in ail its de- tails, ‘Bugenie Sorrentino, the famous Italian bandmaster and composer, and his brother, Vincent Sorrentino, have become American citizens, having recelved their naturaliza- tion papers in Kansas City several days ago. General Danlel E. Sickles will be present at the unvelling of the Sherman statue at Washington In October as a representative of the Army of the Potomac. He is ono ot the few surviving general officers of that organtzation. Captaln Wringe, who salled Shamrock 11T for Sir Thomas Lipton, has wisely con- cluded to remain in the United States and become a citizen. He says of the Shamrock race that he “had no chance to show any seamanship agalnst a yacht that could sail rings around him. Ross L. Clark, president of the Rice Belt Railway company, which runs through the rice-producing section of Texas, is the youngest railroad president in the United States. He s but 30 years old. He began his career as a cowboy and subsequently became manager of a rice plantation. Refurning to the donor the American eagle sent him from the White wountains, 8ir Thomas Lipton unwittingly raps those Americans who have said that they would like to see him win. *This fs an American bird, and out of place on Erin,” was the message that he sent with the eagle. “Naturally, it couldn’t be a mascot for me, for no good American tird could possibly wish to see me Jift the cup.” — POINTED PLEASANTRIES. ‘8o they're to be married. Since they both have mon 1 connldared & €004 ' mateh il i e “It's wha you might call a ‘safety match.’ It 'I only 'h! on the le-—lhl money box—as it were."—Chicago Tribune. "Myu;mcle " he ll-ld “fell at Lookout “‘“Was it a bld fan?” _oWas It'a bad fall?” sho ked innocently. e lupmll the dll @ of Roxburghe Is very rich “He must be. A man should have a lot of money in the bank before he can afford to attach two useless letters to the end of his name.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. He—Your father did not object to our msn‘r‘rll e as much as lh)mfl expected. - poor papa has given up t !del of ‘being too punl(‘ugr.—mnoklyn Ada—Do you get much exerclse? May—Why, yes, T have no maid and I have a walst that buttons in the back.— Judge. “‘sits down " calls it bein' ‘Washington Star. “Some men,” gald Uncle Eben, an' does a day's loafin’ patient an’ resigned. “There 18 some talk of turning over the Phl\vrvlnvn to the Japanese. never did like those Japanes Cleveland Plain Dealer. She—I'll never forget my feelings when you asked me to marry you. He—Why, was it such a hard thing to answer? he—No, but you were such a soft thing to answer—Philadelriula Press. “Darling,” whispered the young bride- oom, “‘we are about to enter a tunnel.' “Then won't you please go and get & arink of water for me. Harola?" sald the young bride, observing that the other pas sengers were watching them expectantly, —Chicago Tribune. erd \Vorker—No, sir, I'd never sell my vote. c-ndldnl-—Ah' but won't you rent it to me for a day? Ward Worker—Well, Indianapolls Journal. that's different.— He was dufl'lbcd as beetle browed, As busy as a bee; As lively as a cricket And a gay June bug for glee; He muhnd ukxo & it But the o sa We do not like that person He seems cxtremely fly.” ~New Orleans Times-Democrat. THE UMMER OF 1003 Washington Post It will be a fine thing when the years have slipped by And a new .lerlflon appears to the eye, As happy as happy can be. To ‘tell, while young hearts are with sym- pathy warmed Of the when the summer got good and reformed: The summer of rineteen-three, The zephyrs that used to be parched were 80 mild That they seemed like the sigh of a com- forted child As they swept o'er the blossoming lea And the sky overhead as it smiled on the ay With & canopfed cloud kept the sunshine away, ‘The summer of nineteen-thres, it was like some old rogue who'Ié changing his d, Ana reu‘me- to be generous, gentle and kind To atone for life over-free; And though some backslidin, now and then, It cooled off and tried not to do it agaln, The summer of nineteen-three, occurred L Deon't ask for a maatie —ask for a Oenulne Welsbach with the Shield of Quality on the box. Flve kinds— & 18, 20,25, 30, 35 cents. N All Dealers. 3 N 3 z ? z 4 - - - - m\\\\\\\\\\ NPT 77777 ' N IIIIIIIII n ll\\\\\\\\\*