Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DA ILY BEE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1, 1903. Tm= W()MAHA DAy BE;; PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI SUBSCRIPTION. suriday), One Year..$4. ay, One Year...... 9 TEF Dally Bee Daily Tllustra Bunday Be Saturday I Twentieth ¢ armer, One Year.. * DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week vening Bee (without Bunday), per week 6¢ Evening Beo (including Sunday), per. week ... yossgossisssviby 100 Com s of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Clreulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldin, South Omaha—City Hall fth and M Streets. ~10 Pear] Street. nity Buildin Park Row Butlding. Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft_ express or postal order puyable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only -shnt stamps accepted in payment ol mafl aceoun oraonal checks, except on Omahay or gustern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebruska, Douglas County, George B, T ick, secratary of The Bes Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actus] number of full and com- plete coples of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bes printed during the month of August, 1908, was as follows: » 20,010 11 ..20,680 2T00 .. 80,010 .. 20,780 20,320 ..29,980 20,300 20,700 ..49,370 20,750 20,030 80,180 26,910 29,800 2,050 20650 .. 49,000 20,430 31,002 20,080 18 OF without 4 0 % P 1 1 0 50 0 2 i7e o Funaing, Twen- EEEENEREPEERENEE t total sales. 805,070 Net averpgo sules. . 28,508 GEORGE B. TZECHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to betore mu tila Slat day of August, A D, 1008 . B, HUNGATE Notary Publie. — LEAVING THE CITY. & the city at have The Dee regularly by Dee Basiness any time may nt to them notitying The office, /n per or by mail The address will be changed as often as desired. e ————————————————————— King Corn stlll holds up his head. The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben are bound to win their golden spurs next week. I——,--— The paving repair problem is being very satisfactorily solved by day labor. — Notwithstanding all discipline, hazing at the Annapolis Naval academy con- tinues to be a favorite pastime. « No plumbing graft, na bridge steal * and -no -benefieent Hghting monopoly s the countersign of Omaha taxpayers. ATV S N " 1t'In to be hioped that the managers of © the fall carnival will tone down. the ! street fair and restraln it within the “ botnds of decency. S——— The auditorium s getting ready to put on its trousseau. The finishing touches in orange blossoms and the wedding march are deferred for Christ- mas. ‘Whether Cresceus has made Omaha famous or whéther Omaha has made Cresceus, famous is immaterial. Suf- ficeth it to say that the race was a rec- . ord-breaker. The Douglas county hospital needs fumigating about twice every year. Firdt it is the drug Dbills, then it is the plumber, then the gas fitter and then the potwréstlers in the kitchen. The new republican primary election rules have proved a bonanza for the photographer. The direct vote. for can- didates in the primaries has made pic- torial advertising a political necessity. The proposed reconstruction of the lopsided nonpartisan judiclary ticket is an afterthought with democratic lead- ers, who are beginning to see that they made an egregious blunder in endorsing the slate put up by a fraction of the bar assoclation. Emm— ®here are no two games of chess allke and no two campalgns can be fought on the same issue. That fact ought to be patent to the republican irreconcilables who want to fight the municipdl battle of last spring over in the county cam- palgn this fall. If Councilman Back cannot transmute the Capitol avenue market building into & public bath house nobody can stop him from converting it into a tonsorial establistiment where hair pulling is re- duced to a fine art and market heuse controversies with long whiskers are settled with a razor. For the next twenty days the Winne- bage and Omaha Indlans who are periodically brought to Omaha to iden- tify a bottle of fire water sold by boot- leggers will have a respite from their arduous task, Deputy United States Marsbal Allan is detained in Omaha by the spontaneous uprising among ward politiclans to make him a candidate for sherifr. Chicago will don red paiut in celebra- tion of her centennial anniversary, which begins next Saturday, and will continue for one whole week. Chicago celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Awerica by Columbus in 1898 instead of 1893. St. Louis cel- ebrate the centennial of the Louisiana purchase one year after the centennial. A week's celebration of the centennial anulversary of the location of Fort Dear- born on the site now occupled by Chi- cago will -be im line with established precedent. P ~ THE NEW CRILD-STEALING LAW. The new Nebraska law against child stealing, passed by the legislature soon after the Cudahy kidnaping, was given Its first test a few days since at Central City. Concerning the law's vatied ap- plicability and its great value as'a de- fense of the homes of the state, the mat- ter is deserving of more than passing attention, The case referred to was that of the Rev. Mr. Gould, pastor of a church at Central City, who in June last enticed away n 16.year-old girl, taking her by a { round-about course to North Dakota. The local authorities traced the ab- ductor, secured requisition papers and brought him home. Placed on trial in the district court the defendant pleaded wot gailty. The evidence of his gullt be- ing impossible of contradiction, the ef- forts of the defending counsel were de- voted to arguing that the girl might possibly have been influenced by the same desire as her companion in flight, thereby making the case not one of child-stealing but elopement. Defendant's counsel also urged with much persistence, calculated to influ ence the lay mind of the jury, that the motive for child-stealing had always been revenge or extortion; and he cited a letter which the defendant wrote to the girl's parents during his absence in which everything went to show that the purpose of the defendant from first to last was to make the girl his life com- panion. All present at the trial agreed that the defense was well handled, but the law was clear—it fixed the limit of the child’s age at 18 years, and only required proof that the child was taken away without the comsent of the parents and kept away by force or enticements. What was the abductor's purpose, or as to whether he could have been punishad in_this connection on some different charge, was immaterial. 8o the county attorney argued, and so, in effect, the court held in its Instructions to the jury, which accordingly brought in a verdict of guilty. The value of this salutary law lies in the ready means which it affords parents in this state for the recovery of their children of either sex, who may be led away frowa home by any person, for any purpose whatever, and for the arrest and punishment of persons so offending the penalty is from one to twenty years in the penitentiary. TRADE RELATIONS WITH CANADA. Trade relations between the United States and Canada continue to command a good deal of attention and interest in the subject appears to be growing, especially in sections where there is a strong bellef that more intimate com- merglal relations with our northern neighbor would be mutually advantage- ous both commercially and politically. The Detroit Free 18 an earnest ad- vocate of this view, urging that a better trade policy would be of far-reaching im- portance to the entire.country. Politi- cally, observes-that paper, the good ef- fect of closer commercial relations can bardly be overestimated. *There is no reason,” argues the Free Press, which s among those who believe that Canada will eventually be a part of the United States, “why the commercial relations between thié United States and Canada should not be made practically as free as the commercial relations between the several states and the different prov- inces, to the mutual benefit of both the Dominion and the republic. There is no reason why ali the dominant financial interests of Canada should not be cen- tered in the United States rather than in England. Wall street ought to be a thousand times more important to Can- ada than Lombard street, and even Bos- ton ougltt to mean more than Liverpool. ‘When the commercial interests of the two countries are sbcurely interlaced, as they would be under rational trade rela- tions, the political union would soon follow.” Our Detroit contemporary s in a most favorable position to know Canadian feeling, but nevertheless it is to be doubted if there is any substantial basis for its view in regard to the political effect of closer, trade relations. There is very little sentiment in the Dominion favorable to wunion with the United States and there is no evidence that it is growing, but rather the contrary. At any rate It is unquestionable that an overwhelming majority of the Canadian people are in favor of remaining as they are politically and that the only altern- ative they would seriously consider is independence; which indeed they prac- tically now have. The Canadians as a whole are strongly wedded to the em- pire and could not be drawn from this by any/ trade relations that might be effected, even absolute free trade be- tween that country and this. In our judgment the cause of closer trade re- lations is not helped by the view that such relations would lead to political union. As to “rational trade relations,” does the Free Press regard as fair and equi- table any proposal which Canada has thus far made? What the Canadians want is practically such an arrangement as that made nearly half a century ago and abrogated after it had been in op- eration some dozen years for the reason that it had not proved to be muthally beneficial, but was almost wholly fa- vorable to Canada. It is not now pro- posed by our uorthern neighbor to make any concession that mfght operate to the disadvantage of her manufacturers, the present protection of which it is under- stood to be the intention to maintain, She simply seeks the American market for her agricultural producers. When- er Canada shall propose “rational” trade relations—that is, a fair and equi- table policy—it is not, to be doubged that the proposal will receive earnest consid- eration, but there is no present indica- tion that she will do_this. ap————— At the sesslon of the International In- surance union, held in Torouto last week, the Nebraska committee reported and was continued and the situation : i ‘with money paid for back taxes to the mains the same as before the meeting. To the uninitiated this ts unintelligible gibberish, Very naturally they would inquire, what fs the matter with Ne- braska? 4 CHECK TU BRIDGE CONTRACTORS? The supreme court of Nebraska Las just rendered a decision tbat should put an effectual damper upon jobbery in the construction of county bridges. Incidentally the court has laid down the rule that contractors and mechanics employed on public works are entitled to thelr pay for work actually per- formed or labor done, notwithstanding the fact that the contract and labor was not sanctioned by law. In the case before the court the con- tention of the county attorney of Lan- caster county wag that ige bridge con- tract was let arbitrarily and not to the lowest and best bidder, and that the county board had violated the law in transferring $4,000 from one fund to another to pay the claims of the con- tractors. The court holds that while the board bad no power to contract for bridge building for a sum greater than the amount of money in the county bridge fund, the county is bound to pay for the work, notwithstanding that it was un- authorized. The court holds also that the board must adopt plans and- speeifications for bridges before advertising and severely scores the commissioners for allowing the contractors to bid on thelr own plans and specifications, The court goes further and says that the board cannot let annual contracts for the repairing of bridges or for the doing of such work in an annual con- tract where the amount exceeds $100, without inviting competition, Had the course outlined by the su- preme court for the letting of bridge contracts and for .the repairing of bridges been pursued in Douglas county there would have been no bridge scan- dals, and there would, moreover, have been a saving of from $50,000 to $100,- 000 effected for the taxpayers. Instead of bridges planned by the contractors with a view to making the job profit- able the bridges would have been built on plans and specifications prepared by the county surveyor or a bridge engl- neering expert, with a view to insuring strength and durability for the struc- ture. It is to be hoped, while the mis- chief done through jobbery in bridge building cannot be undone now, that henceforth the board of commissioners will see to it that bridge building and road bullding generally shall be done in accordance with the definition of the law given by the supreme court. BACK TAXES ON RAILROADS. Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illi- nois Central raiflroad, points with con- siderable pride to the fact that it was state of Mississippl by the Yazoo & Missfssippt railroad, of which he is also president, that the monumental capitol building just completed at Jackson, Miss, was erected.” According to Pres- ident Fish, the amount of back taxes paid into the Mississippl state treasury aggregated $1,583,116.34. The fact that the money was paid only after a protracted legal battle does not lessen the satisfaction felt by the officers of the railroad when they gaze in rapture on the magnificent new state capitol. It goes without saying that & gaze at the new Mississippl capitol is not less satisfactory to the state officials that prosecuted thie enforced collection, as well as to the people of the state of Mississipp! generally. The question of these back taxes has been in the courts for several years and it was not until recently that the mat- ter was decided finally in favor of the state. This decision is suggestive. If the people of Nebraska were in position to collect the back taxes due from the railroads to the various cities and coun- ties by reason of evasion, discrimination and favoritism in assessment, the next legislature could be readily induced to appropriate 8 million dollars for the erection of a mew capitol, and every county seat could erect a new court- house without imposing any additional burdens on the taxpayers. There appears to be a well-grounded suspicion around the northeast corner of Sixteenth end Farnam that Presi- dent Nash of the electric light company is siwply sparring for time to kill off any proposition looking toward munici- pal electric lighting, to which the mayor and council are pledged. In order to submit a proposition authorizing the issue of bonds for the purchase of an electric lighting plant, action would have to be taken by the council in time to submit the proposition twenty days ahead of the election, which oceurs this) year on November 5, and hence the gawe of hide-and-seek between the electric light company and the gas cowpany. If Mr. Nash had been in dead earnest about his beneficent mo- nopoly scheme there was no need of asking the gas company to put in a bid, inasmuch as the Nash scheme con- templates the substitution of arc lights for gas lamps over the entire area of the city. Manifestly if his proposal was adopted the gas company would be out of the street lighting business, no mat- ter what bid it should make. But it is not the gas lamps that Mr. Nash is try- ing to suppress so wuch as the munici- pal ownership proposition. Towa insurance men are said to_be im- patiently awaiting the decision from Judge McPherson on the constitutionalicy of the Iowa anti-compact law. Iowa un- derwriters claim that the law is uncon- stitutional and hence are making prep- arations to organize the state as soon as they can legally do so. In Nebraska the underwriters took it upon themselves to declare the anti-compact law uncon- stitutional before any court had passed upon its validity, and the insurance trust continued to carry on business at the old stand with impunity. Should Judge McPherson hold that the Towa anti- com- pact law is valid the Nebraska under- writers may have to finally dissolve their combine and organize the state on com- petitive lines. The United States Steel trust estimates that its earnings for this year will ex- ceed $125,000,000, or about 8 per cent on its capitalization. In view of the fact that Steel trust bonds are selling at T cents and common Steel stocks at about 18, the estimate of net earnings for this year must be taken with a grain of allowance. True to Jack and B 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. The Towa Methodists will not stand for any new-fangled religlous theories. They are as true to John Wesley as they are to Senator Allison. Looking on the Sunny Side. Indianapolis Journal. “One swallow doesn’t make a summer,” says an old proverb, and one slight frost doesn’t make winter. There will be sev- eral weeks of comparatively warm weather yet and the corn will maintain its repu- tation for coming out all right. Has No Parallel Springfield Republican. Pension Commissioner Ware's annual re- port is uncommonly interesting, with its statistics of pension expenditures on Ac- count of all the republic's wars. A coun- try that has spent from funds raised by taxation the colossal sum of over 3,000,000, 000, within about 100 years, on its old sol- diers, cannot be charged with niggardliness or ingratitude. That consideraby over $2,600,000,000 has been paid In pensions to veterans of the civil war deserves to be specially noted. The total estimated war expenditure by the government during the civil war period was but a little over $3,000,- 000,000. Thus it has cost nearly as much the last forty years to pay the pensions as it did to place and keep the union armies in the field and the union fleets on the seas for the-purpose of suppressing the confederates. As a pension record, there is no parallel to this in all time. Sectarianism of the Bible, Atlantic Monthly. When the purpose of the inculcation of doctrines is introduced, even the cholce of the Bible used as a text-boox becomes a question of the support of the creed of cne church as against that of another. In such a case, as Archbishop Magee pointed out, even the reading of the Bible without com- ment I8 sectarian teaching. “For I ask in the first place, what Bible is to be read in the schools? Is the Bible to be read from the authorized or the Roman Catholic ver- sion? If from the former it is decidedly sectarlan as regards the Roman Catholic, who will not accept that version; and if from the latter, it Is sectarlan as regards the Protestants. Is it to be from the Old Testamen€ and New Testament? Then it is sectarlan as regards the Jew; and if from the Old Testament only, then it is sectarian as regards the Christian, who demands the New Testament also. You can not read the Bible in the school without teaching certain opinfons about the Bible as held by different sects, according to the nature of the Bible you use.” Physical Condition of Army Reer Philadelphia Record. As General Bates has reported that the character and general physical appearance of recruits is not up to the standard of former years, some magazine writer is lkely to argue that' Americans are degen- erating. The army 1s not especially at- tractive to young men and It does not get very many of the best. The fact that for many years recruiting officers have re- Jected a large majority of applicants for enlistment is evidence of this. There are two reasons why the army Is less attractive than usual now. One is that employment at high wages is very general, and there never was a time when the army was so poor a competitor of the industries in seek- ing the services of young men. The other 1s that a large proportion of the young men who have a leaning toward the army got all they cared for during and following the Spanish war. Twenty years hence there will be another generation of young men, many of whom will feel that it there be no war even garrison life {s more in- teresting than working at the bench. OROPS WORTH FIVE BILLIONS, Enormous Money Value of This Y Harvest. Louisville Courler-Journal. In an old and good book, with which few people are sufficiently acquainted, there appears these hopeful words “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. “And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. “And I will remember my covenant, which s between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters hall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.” Elsewhere we are also given the promise that seed time and harvest shall not fail and that rain shall fall on both the just and the unjust, The sacred covenant is always fulfilled, and while there may be suffering in some regions therq_is always an abundance somewhere. 8o it will be this season. Unless all the prognostications of the crop experts fall, the creation of actual wealth on American farms will reach an enormous total money value of five bil- lMons of dollars. Not only the government statisticlan, but also the private experts put the Indlan corn yleld above 2,000,000,000 bushels. If it be possible to have another two weeks of good weather the output will reach 2,300,000,000 of bushels. The welght of the best authority s that the wheat crop will redch 070,000,000 bushels, and even if there be a falling off of 10 per cent on both these estimates, the yicld ot these two staples will represent a money value of $2,000,00,000. Then there 1s the cotton crop, which is whitening the vast plantations of the south and which 18 expected to add $60,000,00 more. Then there are the live stock, the hay crop, the minor cereals, potatoes, tobacco and rice and sugar and other agricultural products with which we shall be able to feed and clothe the nations to the extent of about $500,000,000 In our exports. K- ing frosts may come, but only once in twenty-five years do they arrive before October in the corn belt, and always they are much later in the south, thus sparing the fleecy staple for which the whole world is longing. The corn and the wheat have already been made in the southern states, and the yields are the largest for twenty years, thus permitting the surplus corn states to export more corn, both in the form of grain and meal and in the indl but more profitabie forms of beef and pork products, Europe has such poor Crops over most of its territory that it must take all the cotton, all the flour and the wheat, the beef and the pork that we can send its people out of our own overflowing abundance. Furthermore, there is no in- dicstion of any falling off in our manu- facturing exports, and as forelgners are now buylng our securities, we shall soon replenish our exhausted capital, provided only that the reasonable expectations for the next two weeks be realized BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Inciden on the Speot. The movement for the removal of the re- mains of John Paul Jones, naval hero of the revolutionary war, is likely to come to naught, for the very good reason that there is no present means of identifying the supposed remains in Paris. Referring to a published letter, calling attention to the lack of monumental tribute to John Paul Jones, and stating that the United States government had knowledge of the exact location of his grave in the old cem- etery near the Rue de la Grange, Paris, Secretary of the Navy Moody said: “I am a great admirer of John Paul Jones. It the remains could be identified 1 would send a warship to France to bring them back to this country, provided we could obtain permission to make the re- moval, which I have no doubt we could. But Commander Sim's report seems quite conclusive that it is impossible to obtain positive identification. Lieutenant Com- mander Willlam Sims, several years ago, while naval attache at Parls, made an in- vestigation and reported that the burlal place had been so cut up and built over that it was a manifest Impossibility to identity the grave of John Paul Jones. etehed The new government printing office, which 1s sald to be the largest in the world, is proving too small for the demands made upon it by the immense volume of work necessary to be done for the government Secretary Cortelyou will ask congress at fhe next session for the authorization of two large wings, to cost $2,500,000. It this plan is carried out the completed structure will fully occupy the square of ground on which the printing office stands. The new bullding, adjoining the venerable old white pile which has been the home of the government typo for@the past fifty years, cost $2430,00. The proposed additions will conform to It in architecture, and will take the place of the old white bullding. Inside the complete structure will be large courts and several small bulldings now in use. The new building is fire proof, but the old one s said to be a constant menace to the work of the office. There is a fine seven-story bullding on H street which the Public printer has used for several years, but it does not con- form in architecture to the new bullding. Tt is, however, well made and fire proot. It will be retained and changed In some respects, 80 as to conform to the general style ‘of the completed bullding. Four hundred and forty thousand acres of high grade bituminous coal lands will be knocked down to the highest bidders by the federal government at auction sales to be held some time within the next two years. These lands, which now belong to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and which are located in Indlan Territory, have, under the provisions of an act of congress, been segregated by experts of the geo- logical survey, acting under the direction of the secretary of the interlor. “The value of the lands is not hard to estimate,” says a writer In the New York Tribune. “Experience has proved that the coal veln averages four feet in thickness and will yleld 1,000 tons to the foot, or 4,000 feet to the acre, if the entire deposit is taken out. In order to remave the entire vein it Is necessary to brace the roof with timber supports, however, and in some in- stances it may prove more economical to leave pillars of coal, which will, of course, somewhat diminish the output. “Taking these figures for a basls, it will be seen that the total coal fleld will even- tually yield 7,760,000,000 tons of coal. A con- derable portion of these lands is now be- ing profitably worked on 30-year leases, the lessees paying § cents a ton, “mine run,” for the coal taken out. Under this arrange- ment the mines would yleld approximately 320 an acre. If the lands could be sold on a similar basls, the proceeds would amount to the enormous sum of $140,500,000. That so large an amount can be secured s hardly hoped, but it is belleved, by proper regula- tlons governing the sale, a falr compensa- tion can be secured for the property. The leases now In existence will be sold at the me time as the unleased lands, and, of course, where they exist purchasers will expect to pay only such prices as will leave them a good margin of profit. “Under the provisions of the existing law these coal lands are to be auctioned off un- der the supervision of a commission, which shall consist of thre members—one to be appointed by the president and one each by the respective governors of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations—and those familiar with the situation fear that the responsibil- ity of protecting the rights of the Indlans will devolve largely upon the president's appointee. A perfod of two years will be allowed the commission to dispose of the lands, and the area will be sold in small sections, and iIn framing the regulations governing the sale, Secretary Hitchcock will take every precaution to protect the rights of the Indians An interesting illustration of the excel- lent marksmanship of Uncle Sam's men Dbehind the guns, as developed during the recent inspection trip of the naval com- mitteemen on the United Btates steamer Dolphin, has just come to light. Repre- sentative Roberts of Massachusetts was of the party. Approaching Gunner's Mate Spoer of the ship, Mr. Roberts offered him a dollar to hit a sea gull. Spoer took a forty-pound six-milltmeter Colt's automatic gun, and after a trial shot he popped a sea gull on the fly at 400 yards. One of the representatives was firm in his declaration that the shot was an accldental one, where- upon Spoer shot another gull at %0 yards The crowd of astonished witnesses to the feat finally came to the conclusion that Spoer was the track shot of the ship. This Spoer modestly disclaimed, saying: “We've @ sbipload of 'em, sir.” Spoer got his dol- lar, The wedding ring of a bride is lost in the grass at the Washington monument. It has been sought in vain. Custodian Cralg has had the grass cut to facilitate the search. A young man and woman creeping about on thelr hands and knees in the grass at- tracted much attention. It was ascertained that they were a newly married couple from Baltimore. They had come to Wash- Ington on their wedding tour. They went up to the top of the monument, which is 565 feet high, and took some apples with them. While looking at the city from this great helght they munched the apples. “See how far you can throw the core,” sald the bridegroom “Oh, you think a girl can’t throw, don't you?" was the arch reply of the bride as she raised her arm over her head and made the characteristic feminine sweep. The core went sailing down. As It left her hand the bride cried out In consternation Her wedding ring, placed on her finger only a few hours before, had slipped off and disappeared. In reply to the bride- groom's promise to buy another ring the bride Indignantly demanded to know how anyone could buy a second wedding ring. 8o the search for the missing jing was begun. Correcting a Mist Detroit Free Press. The secretary of the navy has lssued an order declaring “The Star Spangled Ban- ner'” to be the national anthem, and di- recting all officers and men to stand at uttention, if possible, whenever it is played. This is likely to prove very disconcerting to forelgners who think that “A Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight" is the American national hymn THE SUPREME JUDGESHI O'Nelll Frontier: It takes considerable gall for the Independent to howl raflroad tool at Judge Barnes in the face of the records in the raflrond assessment case in which Judge Sullivan stood with the raflroads, Ord Quiz: Kverybody Judge Barnes of Norfolk, didate for supreme judge, speaks well of him. Even Judge Sullivan, his fusion opponent, says Barnes is a splendid fellow and his own personal friend. Sullivan has requested his party supporters to say noth- ing bad of Barnes, for it will be a le to do so. What better endorsement does {any candidate need? Monroe Republican: When the judiclal nominations were made the republicans followed the example of the state conven- tion at Lincoln and selected men who could command more than thelr party vote by reason of their recognized ability and Integrity. Both republican candidates will get a strong endorsement at home, and in this county J. G. Reeder numbers among his friends many democrats and populists who would like to see him on the bench. O'Nelll Frontier: In its tirades ugainst Judge Barnes, the republican candidate for supreme judge, the Independent over- looks the fact that the fusion candidate was one help to the umanimous appoint- ment and reappointment of Judge Barnes to the supreme court commission. If Judge Barnes is a rallroad tool Judge Sullivan is sullty of supporting a railroad tool. But Judge Sulllvan says of Judge Barnes: “I have found him an able and honorable law- yer." 8t. Paul Republican: Judge Barnes was elected supreme court commissioner by the votes of John J. Sullivan, democrat; Silas A. Holcomb, populist, and Samuel H. Sedgwick, republican. This act alone should be a sufficient guaranty to fusionists that his politics will not be allowed to interfere with his official duties, If a nonpartisan Judiclary is what they want they can do no better than follow the example of their representatives on the supreme bench by voting for Barnes. Norfolk News: It appears that their fu- slon with the populists having been so un- profitably short in its desired effect, the democrats would now work a shrewd polit- fcal scheme to fuse with the republicans. Otherwise, that on a plea of nonpartisan- ship in districts where there Is no hope for a democratic victory they will endorse the republican candidates, hoping thereby to interest the republicans in voting for their candidate for supreme judge. If they had commenced at the other end and endorsed the republican state ticket there might have been evidence of sincerity, or ha they given up their candidates where they had majorities it would have sounded better, It Is not worthy of note when none but hopeless minorities are surrendered to the people. Beaver City Times-Tribune: The Time: Tribune s heartily In favor of a nonpa: tisan judiclary, but it has no patience with the pathetic plea now being put up by its democratic and populistic friends. The “fusionists” are In a minority in Ne- braska, else they would not be so wonder- fully zealous in ‘behalf of the nonpartisan idea. They never thought of it while they had things thelr own way. There are three Judges of the supreme court, and as the re- publican party I8 the strongest it Is deserv- ing of the majority representation on the “nonpartisan” bench. If the “fuslonists” are In earnest let them await a favorable opportunity to prove it. That opportunity will come about four years from now when Judge Bedgwick Is up for re-election. If the “fusionists” shall then endorse Judge| Bedgwick we Wil belleve that they are really in earnest in their demands for a nonpartisan judiciary. Until then we will hold to the opinion that their zeal is not so much for a nonpartisan judiclary as it is for a chance to hold on to office. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, There's a young Dooley In the phileso- pher's household and Hennessey s Re longer in it. 8ir Thomas Lipton has Indigestion, which will be regarded by some physicans as a slgn that he 18 becoming thoroughly Ameri- canized. A Missour! farmer, Who has been a keen and loud “octopus” chaser, was suddenly sllenced last week; he found a coal vein on his farm. All the Atlantic coast citles, except Bos- ton, report heavy storms. Boston, how- ever, reports ‘vigorous atmospheric dis- turbances." Boston never forgets itself. The government is advertising for a shoe- maker, who 1s also & musiclan, to go out upon one of the Indian reservations. It such a player's music should prove unsuited to the tastes of Lo and his family the cob- bler will probably have to stick to his last, ‘When Marconl was eating luncheon in a 8t. Louls hotel he heard the music of the Labor day parade and, thinking he was be- ing serenaded, blushed modestly, and, step- acquainted with republican can- ping to the window, bowed his acknowledg- ments to the paraders. The wizard was somewhat taken back when he learned the real meaning of the demonstration. It s not so many years ago since Gov- ernor Durbin of Indiana was employed in a wholesale dry goods house in Indianapolis. The knowledge of fabrics which he acquired there has just come in handy. Complaint was made to him that the Indlana boys' hool at Plainfield was paying too much for uniforms. The governor sent for sam- ples and after careful examination decided that the complaint was well founded. He has taken steps to put malters right. GET ONTO THE SHAPE. What Dressmakers Propose to Do to Thelr Patrons. Chicago Record-Herald The passing of the “kangarco girl," the “military girl" and the poke bonnet are im- portant events heralded by the Natlonal Dressmakers’' convention now being held in this eity. In place of these styles the as- soctation will try to usher in the “oid Pompadour style, the fashion of the relgn of Louls XV, the full-skirted heavy silks and satins, with broad, drooping shoulder effects, deep-pointed front to the stiff walst, and the skirt opening over the petticoat of lace and ruffles.” This is all so simple and plain to the reader that it 1s well to pass on to the other and mueh more imyortant announcement that “prices must be somewhat higher in accordance with the spirit of the times." Hereln we discover the underlying principal of the dressmaker’'s art. It is not to display in modest and simple draperies the lines of the female figure that the dressmakers are banded together. The ever-pressing prob- lem with the ingenious modiste 15 to ob- scure the figure with & maze of satins, laces, flounces, frills and furbelows, ar- ranged in a riot of color and beauty. If these cannot be plled in layers upon the weak and overburdened back of fashionable y—whence will come the dress- ? Everybody knows therg is no money In the simple “tallor-made suit." That's the reason It is turned over to the man tallors. 1t is not a product of the Arcanmalker's art. Just how the fashionable woman of the coming winter will look in a revival of “the fashion of the reign of Louls XV" may be seen from an inspection of the wax figures exhibited at the Lexington hotel by the Na- tional Dressmakers' assoclation. And after looking them over strong-minded men will quietly steal away and join In a ferver prayer that they may remain on wax. Z N S 1f the light in your home isnt satisfactory, it isn't a genuine Welsbach. NN\ I TI7I777 777 2227777 77§ FEEERAANANNNNN 7 Z Z . 7 UP THE BRITISHERS. American Rustle Making Some Prog- ress Among the Workmen, Chicago News, Experts representing many trades unions of England were brought to the United States some months ago as a sort of labor commission by Alfred Mosely, a retired Britlsh manufacturer. When they made their report of what they saw of American methods they agreed that the British em- ployer rather than the British workingman needed to go to school under American in- structors, Thelr verdict was, In the words of one of them: “The English wopker has nothing to learn from America, but the employers have a lot.” Mr. Mosely thought differently. The desire “to get the best possible results from a day's work™ he be- lleved to be lacking in the average British trades unionist American employers who of late have attempted to “rush work” in London find reasons for thinking that both workingmen and employers have much to learn. One American manager in England has had a strike called on him beeause he sought to get his bricklayers to the top ot the ladder before the whistle blew so that they could begin to lay bricks without loss of time. Though he offered to pay a cent an hour more under this arrangement, he had to give up and let the men climb the ladder after the whistle blew and work for* lower wages when they got there. An at- tempt to get more work done in a day than the ordinary cadence wf the British brick- layer's movements renders possible has been made by this same manager by glving a bonus of an extra hour's pay to each man who does not dawdle. The plan has caused serious dissatisfaction among thos men who do not believe in doing more work than they think is enough. Another Ameri- can manager has brought about excellent results with British bricklayers by sup- plylng them with mechanical appliances which expedite labor. Those who have seen the primitive methods which still prevail among English builders will agreo that the American has a broad fleld among them for making improvements, British employer and British workman alike will have to {mprove their methods befors they can equal the American at his day's work. Morely comm'ssions are very well in thelr way, but the strenuous Ameri- can manager who wakes up the Briton on his own soil 18 likely to accomplish much more for the good of that nation's indus- tries than any amount of study and com- parison at long range could do. TART TRIFLES. “De world may cwe you a livin'," Uncle liben, "t you's st i pi e claim, case de world ain't sittin' up nights worryin' "bout its ~ debts.”"— Wi “Is he honest?" i 80 honest that & don't think he'd cheat anybody but Uncle Sam if he had the chance.”"—Chicago Post. 014 Boarder—How does it happen that you gave that man the tenderloin and me the tough end? alter Girl—He ain't declded yet.—New York World. g “Oh, chure “You don't say? He doesn't behave a: it he belonged to any church," 4 ““That's so. He behaves as if the church belonged to him."--Philadelphia Press. s M‘lhud (at the party -Thehru;l Irene over n the corner taiking to Cholly Slympati She has to do something to kil time. Mabel—Is that why she looks daggers at the clock every few minut ) Sho td s 7—Chicago Gayman is a vestryman of our First Bachelor—I wish T could write a decent letter of condolence. Second ~Bachelor—-Someone you know dead? Bachelor—No, First Free Press. engaged. — Detroit cls, that man o statesman or a politl- n “'He's neither,” answered Senator Sor- ghum wearily. “He's a reformer.” —~Wash- ington Star. Clubb—When I explained to her that T had been detained at the office until mid- night she declared it was & bare-faced lie. (et How ridlculous ‘of her to say at. ¥, o had whisk ago.~Philadelphia Press. gl The princes in the tower were trying to fathom their uncle’s motive. “But way de ou suppose he wants to murder us?"' asked ward. “I don’'t know," returned his brother, “unless somebody has been trying €0 tell him of the bright things we get ot ~Harper's Bazar, MERELY MOTHERS. 8. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald, When Johnny, and Jimmie and Dolly Are asleep In their little beds, Thelr mother goes softly among them And picks up the broken threads. Bhe mends a torn apron for Dolly, Then, scanning the broken-up toys, Bhe wonders If any more mothers Have any such troublesome boys, Then & little brown paw is uplifted, "Tis Johnny's “Teach--teacher!" mother Is down by the boy, on her knees, is end his “Hush! Mother dreaming; my darling; no harm you here, my own Johnny; can hurt or alarm.” here, love; you're No teacher And he opens the eyes that resemble The ones looking into his own; “Aw, th Is it you, dearest mummy? Don't g'way and leave me alone.” Tis written that Ged made the motherg To help where He couldn’t trust man: That He needed their goodness and pa- tence To finish His wonderful plan. Not tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla? Then you haven’t ‘tried sarsaparilla! ts l