Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1903, Page 6

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Communications relating to news and edi- | torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTAN Remit by draft, express or postal order | goyable 1o The Bee Publishing Con Inly. 2-cent stamps accepted in payr mall accounts. Personal checks Omaha or eastern exchange: I3 THE BEE PUBLJSHING STATEMENT OF CIRCIU LATION. State of Nebraska, Doug'as County, #s.: George B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily Morning, Evi and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 1303, was as fol- ! Tows. ADI20 16 28030 w270 17 ..28.910 29,370 18 . 2R8T0 20370 19 L.28,860 205860 20, 26,445 oL 2N RR0 28,880 8,530 ..28,730 28,720 L.4D,206 27.240 Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales ...802,744 | Net ‘average sules L us,a24 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to bo(oB me this 3th duy of September, A. D. 19 M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal)) Notary Public. PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY. ing the city at my have The Bee them regularly Bee Busin, or by mal ® will be changed as often as desired. THE OMAHA D ATLY BEE: TUESDAY MORE PUWER 70 COMMISS( Further effort is to be made to have the interstate commerce law amended %0 ak 1o enlarge the powers of the com- mission. Commercial organisgtions have eived from the executive committee of the interstate commer law g@nven tion a circuls ling attention to the need of further legisiation order to ke the of the commission ef: fective. This proposes (o give effect to the decisions of the commission by en- acting the tirst section of the bill which was before the last congress, in we nown as the revised ‘Elkins bill, this section hav- | to the machine. Ing been steicken out, together with the second section, when the measure was reported by the senate committee. The section which it is proposed to have enacted provides that the comn- mission shall determine, upon full henr. ing of all parties in interest, what change it a rate or practice found to be unreasorable or discriminative shall be to the wrong, such de- become homediately Ive, subject to review by any cir- cnit court of the United States baving Jurisdietion, It Is pointed out in the circular addressed to commercial or ganizations that the Elkins bill as en- acted at the last session of congress re- lates wholly to the prevention of dis- crimination between individuals by de- parture from published tariff rates, or by offering or granting, soliciting or ac- cepting, any rebate or concession there- from. It containg no provision for the prevention of unjust discrimination in tarifl rates between different loculities or sections, or in the classification of freight, or between carload aund less than carload rates, nor for protection against the continuance of rates unre sonable in themselves. “These abuses,” says the circular, “ean be remedied only by finvesting the commission with the authority prescribed in the first section of the revised Elking bill,” and it is the opinion of the executive committee of the interstate commerce law conven- made corrvect termination ope to ve members of its tax committes who have carried on the campaign for equitable assessment during the past year. Mr. Reed is acknowledged to be by far the most experienced appraiser of real estate walues in the county, but he doex not come up to the standard of the firc-eating anti-harmonists The recommended candidate for treas urer. Robert Fink, is charged up the machine faction, whereas lie las been no more a machine factionist than City ‘Preasurer Hennings, whom the fire-eaters do not pretend to charge up to The only offices of first magnitnds which may he credited to the so-called machine. faction are the sheriff and county judge, and they do not outweigh by any means the clerk of the court or the county assessor. 'From the standpoint of availability and success A, J. Donaloe i certainly superier to any of his competitors, He has no record to defend, no explanations to make and is popular, and would com- mand: the support of all clgsses of voters, The manifesto fire-eaters make them- selves ridiculous in charging the coroner and county surveyor up to the epposite faction. In the first place these candi- dates bave no competitors. In the nest place there is no patronage attached to their offices. The coroner does not em- HARMONY TICKET | Recommended Candidates for the Republican Primary Election | Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1903: rk of the District Conrt— W. W. BINGHAM A. ). DONAHOE. For County Judge— CHARLES S. ELGUTTER. For County Treasurer— ROBERT 0. FINK. Clerk— ERNEST L. GUSTAFSON. For County HARRY D. REED. ll'.r‘Cn!llr Coroner— EDWIN F. BRAILEY. County Surveyor— For ploy even a messenger boy and the men employed under the surveyor are forced upon him by the county commissioners, But even if that was not true the clerk of the district court, with a reputed in- come of $6.500, would count in the scale of patronage and salary more than any other two county offices to be filled. It is a humiliating, if not disgraceful, pectacle that the division of spoils should be made an issue by republicans | who have no self-respect rather than the desire to give the people better gov- ernment by presenting a set of candi- dates whose reputations and records cemmend them to the undivided sup- port of the rank and file. tion that by concentrating its efforts upon this one provision, with the active co-operation of the various commercial bodies of the country interested in the movement, the proposed legislation may be secured. The committee very clearly indicates the importance of the matter, which should receive the early and careful at- tention of the commercial bodies of the % Republican county primaries today. E—————— Primary polls wili .be open from 12 noon to 7 p. m, \ S Republican county primaries today. No republican should fail to vote. S— When King Ak-Sar-Ben says “Let there be light” there 1§ light and plenty of it. A 3 —— 1t seems that the fusionists of Greater New York draw the ithe at fusing with Tammiany. » » 2 S 1f ‘. will only keep this up the weather man can have first prize with- out competition. E————— King Peter should present a pronoun- elng gazetteer to every subject who way have business with the members of his new ministry. — That sort of mania which makes Its vietims think the White House is the Place to brandish firearms is of the kind that will have to be suppressed. —— Bir Thomas Lipton has put himself on record as opposed to Joseph Chamber- lain’s preferential tarifr policy. Sir Thomas prefers to have tea ou the iree list. S—— The question Douglas county repub- licans who want to win must consider is ‘whether it Is not better to nbminate men who can be elected than mew who would start out in the face of defeat. ————— p The.ncxt run of the national war drama will be put on the stage at Fort Riley for a limited engagement in which the country will be saved several times agaln from an Imaginary enemy. e That .earthquake at &t. Louis should bave delayed its appearance until next year, when it might have entered itself a8 an exhibit at the great world's ex- position. A small earthquake trained to perform at given intervals would be a great drawing card for the Midw: — Judge Vinsonhaler first denied that he r to secure his second nomination. Then he mdmitted that perbaps he had promised to consult with somebody about some- thing. Now that he is confronted with the original signed document he doesn't remember how it happened. Sm——— Cardinal Gibbons reminds us that Pope Plus X is in his 69th year and the same age as Leo XIII when i was invested with the papal authority. 1t Cardinal Gibbons, however, to predict that Pope Plus X will be able to reign over the church as long as did his prode- cessor. country. A number of these in the eastern cities have already given it con- sideration and commercial organizations in the west should manifest an equally earnest interest in the question. The additional legislation proposed is obvi- RIS NAME SHOULD BE PETER. Duncan M. Vinsonhaler $houid have been named Peter. Thrice did DPoter PETER A. EDQUIST. For County Superintendent of Public Instraction— J. H. TULLIS. This ticket represents both wings of the republican party and is as well dis- tributed over the territory included in Douglas county as could be under ex- isting conditions. The candidates for clerk of the district court, county treas- urer, county judge, sheriff and assessor are fairly divided between the so-called machine and anti-machine elements. The nomfnation for county clerk Is a concession to the republicans of South { Omaha, Mtr. Gustafson being their unan- imous choice and the only candidate from South Omaha who filed his name with the committee. Messrs. Brailey and Edquist, for coroner and county sur- deny his Master, but Duncan has denied his makers, Frank E. Moores and the wachine, any number of times. Duncan is blessed with even a more treacherous memory than Peter. He at first denied that he had ever made a pledge to the machine and when he was shown a fac-simile copy of the famous pledge he denied that that was his signature. He finally admitted that he had signed a pledge, but brazenly ously desirable. 'The Elkins bill passed denied its contents, although the original by the last congress is very well as far document is on deposit in this offic as it goes, but something more is needed | 24 ™Ay be inspected by anybody who for the prevention of discrinination and the suggested enlargement of the pow- wants to see it. Duncan M. Vinsonhaler gave his word f honor in the presence of John Steele ers of the commission in this direction, | % enabling it to correct unrensonable or 404 A- C. Foster that the Seventh ward discriminative rates at once. but subject delegation to the county convention by which he was renominated for a sec- dicial few, we think would un-| ¥ :n::tedl" hr::' 1 "‘“::’ 1t is “‘:_ ond.-term would vote with the machine tainly as important to prevent discrim- faction on every proposition before that ination between localities or sections as between individuals, —— THE ANTI-HARMONY MANIFESTO. convention on condition that the dele- gates representing that faction would help to make his renomination unani- mous. But when the convention met Vinsonhaler repudiated his word of Why do the rabid anti-factionists op- | honor, although the party of the second pose the harmony ticket? They admit|part lived up to its compact, and he that every man on that ticket is honest | did not have the decency even to notify and who upon landing at Castle Garden capable, but, like the Irishman|the men who had trusted him that his part of the agreemeut would not be asked whether there was a government | fulfilled. in this country and when told that Judge Vinsonhaler first denied that there was exclaimed “Thin I'm ferninst | the county funds and trust funds in his it,”” *these frresponsibles are aguinst custody were drawing interest and later these candidates because The Bee says | reluctantly admitted that they were they are honest and capable. It The | loaned out on interest in banks and on Bee had denounced these men as po- | securities whose character is kno only litical renegades, crooks and boodlers|to himself and the borrowers, bui to the fire-eating anti-harmonists would | nobody else. have endorsed them with a whoop and a hurrah, In their anti-harmony manifesto the | tries to deny his own signature Can a politician who denies his maker and goes back on his word of honor, and be fire-eaters try to create the impression | trusted in office or out of office? that the recommended candidates are put forth as the cholce of the Washing- ton hall harmony . meeting. No un- prejudiced person who has read the |progressive tendenc THE MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS. There is not much which the citizen of will find in the articles in The Bee recommending these | platform of the Massachusetts demo- candidates will them in that spirit. Op the contrary, interpret. or construe | crats to commend, but there is one fea- ture that is highly creditable to them. the declaration is expressly made that | This is the declaration of opposition to these candidates were regarded by a | the repeal of the fourteenth and large number of republicans as the most | fifteenth amendments of the federal con- avallable men that could be culled from | stitution, which is advocated by some the list from which the republicans were compelled to make their thoice. This | Boston leading southern Transcript democrats. remarks, As the this dec- is literally true since a large majority | laration emphasizes the distinetion be- of the republicans who had taken part [ tween the democrats of the north and in the various harmouy conferences In-|those of the south and “shows that the dividually expressed preference for the plea for unity which bas been advanced candidates grouped by us under the by Senator McLaurin of Mississippi and head, “The Harmony Tieket.” In their anti-harmony Senator Carmack of Tennessee is em- manifesto the | phatically rebuffed in New England. In five-eaters declare that a ajority of | the south the democrats are solid for the recommended candidates have been | distranchisement of the negro as a way identified beretofore with the machine | of getting round the two amendments, faction. Concede that to be true. does | and the candid declarations of Senators that disqualify them? Do competency, in- | McLaurio and Carmack are distinctive tegrity and availability count for noth- only in their cand ing? As a matter of fact the anti fac- tion bas much the best of it on the harmony ticket. The wmost lucrative office in this county, that of clerk of the district court, is accorded to W. W. Bingham simply because he had for years been one of thelr most prominent leaders and was in three successive campaigns the alinost unanimous choice The best proof of the agreement denfed by 'Judge Vinsouhuler is the document itself, duly attested by his slgnature. Any one In doubt as to its Kenulneness may inspect it for himself b calling at this otfice. The documents in the case are always better evidence than the defective veracity of the wman whose word Is only given to be broken. E— All the rallroads that entered Omaha in the past have wet with more or less obstruction in securing rights of way through the streets, so the present ex- perience of the Chicage Great Western Is no movelty. It is not so loug ago * that the Ilinois Central found itself up against the courts In its efforts (o come in, m Chicago Great Western will get the track cleared after the legnl cobwebs are brushed aside. - of the antis for the position of mayor and Is regarded among the anti candi- dates for district clerk as the man who would poll the lurgest vote at the elec- tion. All these considerations do not, however, seem to count with the rabid anti-harmonists. They do not seem to care whether or not the candidate nom- proclaim themselves so, inated has any show of election. The second best office. if ot the most | winistration, important, that of county assessor, has | pe doubted that also been conceded to the anti element, and for practieally the same reasons for which Mr, Bingham bhas been recom- wended—that of capacity and availabil- ity. While the rabid factionists repudi- ate Harry D. Reed, he has been en- They have the courage of the southern democrat’s con- victions. Northern democrats, at least those of Massachusetts, are of a dif ferent and nobler opinion, one that sorts with the traditions of New England democracy.” Commendable as is the example of the democrats of the Bay state in this par- ticular, it is safe to say that it will not be followed by democrats in other north- ern states and assuredly will not be en dorsed by the next democratic national convention. The probability is that a wmajority of northern democrats arve in favor of repealing the amendments though of course they would not now Let there be a national ad- however, and it is not to most northern demo- crats would be found in full accord with those of the south on the question of re- democratic congress and pealing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. ——— Cowme to diagnose the diseases of the dorsed as the most capable and most | rabid anti-barmony factionists we find trustworthy candidate for the office of | that nearly every shrieker against nar- assessor by the officers of the Real | mouy has a personal grievance. He s Estate’ exclisnge, as well a5 by the | either & dissppointed office seeker or a .- Mboniet T ) S A | veyor, have no competitors in the race. Mr. Tullis is recommended because he resides in one of the country precincts and may therefore be properly consid- ered as a concession to them. Let it be understood that there is no disposition on the part of republicans who have eéndeavored to harmonize the TALK OF THE STATE PR Kimball Observer: Judge Barnes is gain. Ing in favor with the people as the cam paign advances. His private life and offt cial career are unassaflable. Plerce Call: The editor of the Fa Irfield Herald has known Judge Barmes for (b past twenty years, having lived a neighbor when he lived at Ponca. He says the republican party never put up a better man for the office of supreme judge Madtson Chronicle: Judge Howard erudite editor of the Columbus Telegram who has been howling ‘‘clean campaigr pulled the stopper from his mud bottle lust week and proceeded to turn it on Judge Barnes. Mud throwing seems to be only campaign the democrats can put up against Judge Barnes. Leigh Wou The democratic press has begun to abuse Judge Barnes, but that is to be expected, no difference who the re publicans nominate for office, The firet thing the democratic press does s to jump in and call him a rogue, holdup or a cor- poration tool that has been doing things for the rallroads for years, and all kinds of like nonsense. Cut it out and fight an honest campaigh once. It might be clean methods would gain you votes. You will need them. Geneva Signal: A number of democrats and populists are expressing a determination to vote for Rooseveit for president year. They can help Roosevelt next year par to dictate to anybody. They concede to every republican the right to express his preference for any candidate he may deem most worthy and competent. But they sin- cerely believe that the nomination of the men named above would command the united support of the rank and file of the party and insure success at the coming election; ; man whose 51«! will not bear the searchlight of publicity. One of the most virulent anti-barmony patriots was an aspirant for a $2,000-a-year job few years ago as a city health officer and he has been foaming at the mouth ever since Mayor Moores saw fit to select one of his competitors. Several eminent attorneys were thrown out of harmony by the selection of Connell as city attorney and several others were defeated as candidates for positions of honor and trust at republican primaries or at regular election because they were discredited by the party or dis- counted by the people. Now they want revenge with a big R. ‘Wall street financiers think they are getting over that panicky feeling. Just what they took for it is not yet dis- closed, but the remedy will doubtless be | of hm: no one can criticise his action Injand residents of Charlestown advertised shortly testimonials, with a full list of Perish the Thought! St. Louls Globe-Democrat. A railroad corporation refused to accept the gift of a plece of ground for a station at Mexico, Mo., and pald for It. Raliroads are getting so consclentious that one of these days they'll not let you tip the porters—but when? Concerning Prophesy. New York World. Mr. Bryan In a letter on the ‘race problem” remarks that “Speaker Reed once said ‘it is never safe to prophesy unless you know.' " Perhaps Tom Reed said this, but Lowell said it eariler and better in the “Biglow Papers:" “Don't never prophesy unless ye know." Representative of the Best. Baltimore American Day day the Roosevelt administra- 1 grows to mean more and more to the by ti country at large. questions are becoming involved until by the time of the republican convention next vear Roosevelt will have become already the candidate of the best that Is In the country against all that is unhealthy and Inimical to the preservation of the liber- ties of the whole people Olney's Fatal Mistake. '| mistakabiy set in in behalf of Nebraska, in Greater and still greater | Philadelphia Press, Richard Olney does not command the ap- proval of the democratic party in Massa- chusetts, which must end all nomination for the presidency. requested to say something in the democratic state convention refused in such & way that Mr. Olney's name was not even mentioned. Apparently there was complete unanimity on that point. And that 1s the way Mr. Olney Is repald for sinking his convictions and coming out in the last presidential canvass for Bryan At his age he made an lrretrievable mis take without excuse. . Trade Relation with Mexlco, Philadelphia Press. There Is a vory satisfactory trade be- tween Mexico and the United States. We buy of the Mexicans over $41.000,00 worth of stuffs, mainly made up of ores, fibres, hides and other raw materials of manu- facture. We sell in return over $42000,000 worth of manufactured goods. This even exchange of commodities is greatly ad. vantageous to both countries, and there a gradual growth of both exports and im- ports, largely promoted by increasing facilities of railway transportation. Our trade, however. is crippled by our deplorubie tariff polley, which puts American manu- facturers and merchants at a disadvantage :; competing with German and English vals. v 3 talk of his|crats had been successful. Although | never good in this country when the demo- his favor | crats were successful B TS o WS S ey by helping to swell the republican ma- Jority this year in the counties and in the states. Every republican should take par ticular pains to go to the polls this fall @nd deposit a ballot endorsing Roosevelt and his admintstration. All such acts done this fall will count for Roosevelt next year, both at convention time and at the polls. Norfolk News: Governor Mickey has had some time to look into the political situa- tion and s quoted as saying: "I belleve there is no doubt in the world but Judge Barnes will be elected supreme judge. 1 have met men from all parts of the state during the last week, and they bring re- ports that everywhere it is Barnes and a full republican votc. They tell me that the party is well organized in every district, and I feel sure, basing my belief on these reports, that we will be successful also in the district judictal fights Springfield Monitor: Omuha papers think the proposed interurban trolley lines to that city from the villages and towns in east- ern Nebraska cannot be built too soon. The Monitor is of the same opinion and so are a great many other people in this locality who would Iike to be in closer touch with the metropolls of Nebraska. But, then, our Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice line is to be started soon, and with a little patience we will have what we arc longing for. A con- tract has been let to an eastern firm for the manufacture of materfal for the line. David City Banner: If Judge Barnes is a railroad tool and a man of limited legal ability why did Sullivan and Holcomb, the two fusion members of the supreme court, favor him as one of the republican mem- bers of the supreme court commission? Again, if Barnes is the kind of a man the World-Herald and Its satellites through the state represent him to be, why did Judge Sullivan, the democratic nominee say, when renominated, the republican nominee was a personal friend of his and that he considered him a worthy rival? Norfolk News: Republicans who realize that next year is the presidential cam- palgn will put in some extra licks for the ticket this fall to furnish substantial evi- dence to the country that the state is in line for Roosevelt and reassert the fact that republican prosperity is of the desired brand. They can begin none too early and can work none too late, as the democrats will try ae hard as they can to have Rooseveit discredited, and nothing would be considered a more serious slap at the executive than to have Nebraska fail him on the eve of a national campaign. Loup City Northwestern: Thd populist papers are very fond of quoting from the Nebraska Independent, but when that paper openly declares In a long article right after | the holding of the populist state convention that the party had busted and that there would be no more populist party in Nebraska, they studlously avolded reproducing the article, and when it Is brought to the public attention by the republican press simply refer to It as a “slop over.” It may be a “slop over," but it is not the kind of slop that the populist editors relish. They evi- dently would rather go off with the demo- cratic party and re-establish the soup house Industry. Soup Is better than slop, any- way. 8t. Paul Republican: Whatever State Treasurer Mortensen's fellow members of the ‘normal school locating board may say investing the permanent school fund in legal securities down to the last dollar. A recent statement lssued from his office shows only 40 cents of this money on hand. is in marked contrast to the “reform’ of J. B. Meserve, thé last populist urer, who kept from a quarter to half & million in banks that would agree to credit his private account 3 per cent Inter- est. As this paper hitherton remarked, Peter Mortensen is as honest as they make 'em. There will be no questionable transactions in the state treasurer's office while he Is | in charge. | Fremont Tribune: A reaction has un- the matter of its people going eisewhere to find better bargains In land and more profitable opportunitics for farming. Can- ada and the Dakotas are not better, nor as good. Those who sold in Nebraska at a high figure and went north and bought and have sold have for (he most part made | some money on speculation. But those who | #0ld here and went there to setile down and farm are already finding it doesn't pay to experiment. Land that cannot be farmed profitably is worth nothing for that pur pose. It is the margin of profit that makes it valuable. And for that very reason Ne. braska land should be held onto. This les- son Is being frequently learned York Times: Men who had nothing to do and little to eat during the democratic adi- | ministration and who are crowded to death | with work now have the two evils to choose between when they vote. There is no get- ting away from the proposition. You can- not laugh It off. It Is a condition and not & | theory. Neither can you say the times | would have been just as good if the demo- | The times were the 114 For years the | ; Aboold;ely Pure ‘ THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE {of the annual carnival now being held. lis lavishly fllustrated with half-tone pic- the | | | | | since the constitution was adopted the democrats have been In power four differ- ent periods, and every ome of them has been a perlod of depression and financial distress. 8o we take no chances in s ing positively that the times would not have been good had tho democrats succeeded, and we say with equal assurance that an era of hard times, ruin, bankruptcy, ldle- ness and starvation will follow the next democratic victory. Not only is history in- exorable, but reason and judgment also teach that the democratic theories ave im- practical and disastros P — PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Tom Johnson has sent his automobile to the repair shop. Maybe he is going to have it fitted with a wind shield The Consolidated Lake Superior work- men are in a rlotous frame of mind over the faflure to get their pay: Philadelphia investors are too much stunned to get real angry. An Indiana man has written a 400,000 word history and description of the Philip- pines. The statement that it is exhaustive may be accepted without further corro- borative evidence. One of the St. Louis get-rich-quick con- cerns has sued the sheriff, district attor- neys and others interested in a recent raid upon it for conspiracy. They musi have a new nerve tonic in Missouri. ¢ Mrs. O'Leary’s cow has been vindicated, but whether the rascals who provoked the animal's left hind leg to action were rush- ing the growler at the time promises to re- main the greatest mystery in Chicago his- tory. “I've got a dirty tongue and an un- governable temper,” confessed Walking Delegate ““S8am" Parks the other day, and he might have added that he had the quali- ties and deficlencies of which these were the manlfestations. P Miss Clara Barton has not ceased her labors in behalf of the Red Cross soclety, notwithstanding the recent efforts to de- pose her from the presidency. She is formulating plans for a new and large fund of probably $1,000,000 for the extension of the work. M. Louls Andre, the well known crim- inal judge of Paris tribunals, has devoted all of his fortune for the purchasing of lands and creating large settlements at Haut de ,St. Jean, near Chartres and Cholsy, where ex-culprits can find work and happy’ surroundings. The home of James Barton Adams, the Denver poet, has been destroved by fire. Poetry has long been regarded as an extra hazardous occupation because of the flammable nature of the material In use. Mr. Adams should turn on the hose when wrestling with the muses. In honor of the London Artillery com- pany a British flag floated beside the stars and stripes from the upper windows of Bunker Hill monument last Friday. Nothing like it ever happened there before expressed indignation at what they called the dese- cration of the menument. The Post of Sheridan, Wyo., has issued a comprehensive industrial edition in honor 1t tures of the city, the mountains, vaileys and ranches, and portraits of the hustling men who have made Sheridan a strong, progressive city. It Is a specimen of high class work that reflects credit on the en- terprise of the publishers. Famous Corkserew Warrlor, Chicago Chronicle The arrival in Boston of the Anclent and Honorable Artillery of London to visit the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of the Hub recalls Chauncey Depew's address on a slmilar occasion in London. “We have In both countries,” he sald, “the same military bodies. We have, first, the regu- lars, who fight because it is their business to fight; second, the volunteers, who fight when they have to fight; and, third, the Ancient and FHonorable Artillery, who never fight under any considera*ion. What a grand family medicine itis, grand—Ayer’s a Sarsaparilla. i, or o, Mass' st S .t S £t it ket affords. THE OLD RELIABLE | | ! | ! 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My daughter picked him out and all 1 had to do was to pay for him."— Cleveland Plain Deal bodied man 1o agk a i 1-to-do_citiz answered Medndering Mike, “But, mister, I'm jes' naturally too kind-hearted to tap 'im on de head and take it away from him.”—Washington Suar, “A great big abl ought to be ashame money,” sald the w S ki I ought,” like yo nger “Has Windham given up his aspirations for the Jecture platform?™ “0! No By the way, there was an- other Laby born at his house last week “You don't ? He's getting quite a he scems determined to get an if he has to raise It himself.' — Iphia Press. Dante was conducting his trip through inferno “And this," he exclnimed, “is the Stygian e; the worst of all the torments “But,” asked Virgil, “where ple whose cooks have left? Percelving that he was stumped, the poet began to grind out another canto.—New York Sun. TTLE WEATHER BALLADS, are the peo- 8. W. 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