Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1903, Page 12

s S THe OMAHA Dm.v BEE. B ROSEWATER. EDITOR. One Yeat. chtury Farmor. nluvnmm BY CARRIER lly Bee (without Sunday), per an‘ . y Bee (without Sunday), per week..120 Du (lncludlnl Bunday), . week.170 mu lo- ["('um Y Sanday), p« {wosk 80 without Sun cluding nund per delivery Circulation Des mpla fari & bo addressed xg“(.l!y 7 ent. OFFICES unoll Blufts-io ;em Btreet. ca, 1 v §orian “park How Buiding. ‘ashington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to g.uznxuuer ould be addr itorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order ble to The Bee Publishing Company, 3-cent stamps accepted in payment of aocounts. ‘ersonal checks, except on ha or unern oxC] 8, no! acce] BEE PUBI G C X. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ru Coun‘l 1} sworn, £ o Yeull and t plete coples of ing and Sunday month of September, it BERNEREBRESSENE mighty tame affair, ey " The price of silver is m up. But whtuboutthvprlceo(lw.! DR A If resolutions would m they ‘! troubles the Civic Federation” would soon establish an industrial Elysium on ‘earth. ;i ' The scquitial of FUGRGy e & fine parallel fo southerm lynch law, The ‘culprit escapes while the innocent are burned at the stake. Smet—————— Mark Twain is out against the Tam- ‘many ticket in New York. Mark Twain's difficulty, however, is to get the ‘people to take him sexiously. /*Mmtot Ewmnfl- )dn in this city answer the question ‘as to party afiliation, “Republican.” And, what's more, they mean it. The very' light ition indicates elther indifference’eq the part of the rank and file of voters or a lack of time comsoquent on b pressure, or bdth. ——— One of the gubernatorial candidates in Tlinols proposes to. get into the race withput a formal announcement. He s bound to attract attention to himsel? Some way. p—— Alaska has already chosen its dele- gates to the republican national nom- nating convention of 1004. It has to be '8 mighty cold day when Alaska does not come In early. < § E— The Standard Oil's newest competitor Is in Gallcla, where a big ofl syndicate is forming. As yet no serious appre- are felt for the stability of the University of Chicago. L —— 3 My twelve lawyers were engaged in ~ the trial of Tillman for the murder of Bditor Gonzales. Had there only been thirteen the jury might have reached a | Yerdict on the first ballot. Em———— | The only real danger to republican Buccess, state and local, this year is overconfidence. Get out and register and miake sure you will not lose your vote by your own negleet. Y —J1 + Teken down the whole ticket in Doug- las county, there 18 no good reason, un- Jess ft be personal, why republicans should prefer democratic candidates to ! thelr republican opponents. According to Indianapolis dispatches Sehator Fairbanks s said by his friends to be willing to accept the vice presi- © dontlal pomination. In that case thé Indlana senator will become ’s second choice for the place. ——pm—— Not many years ago Ohancellor An- . drews was regarded as decldedly un- n“ " the money question, but that did not prevent him from being a chief orator at the Nebraska bankers' conven- tlon, The whirliglg of time brings its pevenges. : Did you notice how the junior evening yellow comes to the tront for the school “board slate fixed up by the Pearse Burgess combine? The wily school su. perintendent knew what he was doing when he put the sister of the publisher ~ on the High school pay roll at a salary twice what she was earning 1n Kansas Oty s . e Thebe 1s vo valld excuse for delaying granting the right-of-way Great Western over streets and ctoss theit prospective uncfl will require the company (0 guarantee payment CALL FUR GOVERNMENT ACTION. The association for promoting Amerl- can trade with Asia will urge some ac- tion by our government in regard to the attitude of ‘Russia respecting Man- churig. The report of the sectetary of the association sets forth what is very generally felt to be the situation— namely, that permaneént occupation of Manchuria by Russia means the even- tual exclusion of American trade from that portion of the Chinese empife, in epite of the fact that we have treaty rights there. The report takes the view that the course of Russia I8 the begin- ning of the partition of China among the Buropean powers and if gomething is not done to arrest it this country will in time have no Chinese trade. It is not only Manchuria, declares the report, that must be kept open to Amer- jean products, but the greater market i|also comprised in the provinces south of the great wall. While at present ou® trade is largely with the region dominated by Russia, we desire to culti- vate all of China ‘that ispaccessible to commerce and in order that we may do this the preservation of the territorial integrity of China is manifestly essen- tial. To this our government s already fully committed and it is to be expected that it will continue to exert its influence in the direction it bas been doing for several years. But if this should not prove effective, what then? Ho far as Manchurla is concerned, it seems to be practically determined that we must depend upon the favor of Rus- sia for' the continuance of our trade there and if that power should at some future time decide to shut us out then will rise the serlous question as to the action to be taken. It is hardly possible that the United States would permit its treaty rights to be disregarded and the trado of its; people ruthlessly cut off ‘without mkln: any effort to maintain [its rights and hold the trade. At pres- ent there seems to be no sufficient rea- son for action of any kind. Grant that the course of Russla appears to involve dariger to American interests, still our government would not be justified in do- ing anything so long as our rights and w dre not actually invaded or in- \}N‘. Undoubtedly the secretary of the Aglatic assoclation is quite Bayiiig that In view of Russia's any agsurance made y that powet in regard to the freedom lmi'l’lx trade in Manchuria are en- | to littte confidence, yet our gov- gt must treat them as given in ‘| good fiith and could not with propriety express any doubt or distrust respect- ing them. - Tlgt the Washington government is not niiffferent to the Chinese situation can be confidently assumed. No doubt it 18 tecelving most careful attention at the Department of State, with a full understanding amd appreciation of its great impoftance. But manifestly there is nothing to be done by our government now, since no right or interest bas yet been red with. e—ee—— THE ACQUITTAL OF TILLMAN. That justice was' outraged in the ac- quittal of Tilman we think all men of enlightened and unprejudiced judgment will agree. There was never a clearer case of premeditated and cold-blooded murder than was the killing of Gonzales. No one who read the evidence could think otherwise. Several witnesses tes- tified to declarations by Tillman of his intention to kill the editor and he went constantly armed with ‘thll in view. One of the witnesses, who had told Tiil- man that he would have to challenge Gonzales, testified that the former re- plied, at the same time exhibiting his pistol, “Don’t worry, boys, for I'll snap out his life with this.” The lawyers who defended Tiliman made the ex- traordinary plea that the fact of his arming himself should have been suf- ficlent notification to Gonzales to arm himself in turn, and that consequently Pillman was justified in belleving that Gonzales had done what a sotithern gen- tleman sfould do under Ilike circum- stances and was armel at the time Tillman attacked him; that the fact of Gonzales being unarmed and defenseless when shot down was his own fault and not at all to the discredit of Tillman. The acquittal of Tillman is a r@ro-ch to the state of South Carolina. As to the acquittal, while he goes unpunished for his cowardly crime, in the judgment of all who are capable of forming a just opinion and who hdve a proper sense of justice the killlng of Gonzales was deliberate murder, for which the as- sassin should have suffered the severest penalty. m———— THE REBATE ON COAL. THe Boston Asscciaiea Board o2 wiade has adopted & resolution recommend- ing that the suspension of the duty on coal, ordered by congress last January and to remain in force one year, be made permanent. It'is safe to say that all copsumeéys of coal will approve this suggestion, baving been very conclu- sively shown that the suspension of the duty has injured no interest or industry, When the matter was proposed in con- gress there was something of a protest agalnst suspending the duty from the Pacific coast, but no complaint has been heard from that quarter that the coal Industry was hurt by theraction of con- There is no sound reason against mak- ing the suspension of the duty perma- nent, while there are very strong ones in favor of it. In the first place a duty on coal is wholly unnecessary. That product does net need protection and the government ddes not require the small revenuo it received from the 67, cents & ton. The people, however, as the Springfield Republican observes, do need all the protection avallable against the ‘coal combinations and the most avail- able meesure of protection is the perma- nent femoval of the customs tix on for- elgn coal. The act suspending the coal duty will expire by limitation on Jan- uary 14, 1904. A shmple measure re- pealing the duly fs all that will be THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: mmnumummxm]m would not contribute much to the a measure would meet with no opposi- tion whatever in congress. At any rate it would certainly have the unanlmous endorsement of the consumers of coal. GIVE OMAHA THE BENAFIT OF DOUBT. In attempting to put into force for the coming munidipal assessment the pro- visions of the new revenue law béfore they have been applied generally throughout the state, Tax Commissioner Fleming is encountering many difficul- ties. These difficulties are, doubtless, in- herent in the law and not to be avéided under conditions that afford no préce- dents to follow and make it necessary to experiment more or less. The tax commissioner should, and doubtless does, appreciate the fact that in striking out in advance of any action by the state board or by the various eounty assessors to beé chosen at the coming election, the danger is that Omaha will load itself with a burden of state taxation disproportionate to the share it rightfully ought to carry. It is understood that on a number of mooted legal questions the attorney general has declined to pass advante opinions, re- ferring the tax commissioner to the law- officer of the municipal corporation, and this official, while expressing his own views, declares that the construction of the law rests uitimately with the tax commissioner himself. It scems to us that the only safe rule for Tax Commissioner Fleming to follow wherever a reasonable doubt occurs as to the actual expressed intent of the lawmakers, is to give Omaha the benefit of the doubt. We have been making marked progress toward more equitable assessments and taxation during the past few years and we must not go backward or even stand still in our movement for tax reform, but at the same time we cannot afford to move 8o fast as to handicap the trade and industry of Omaba by discriminating againkt ourselves. ‘While the assessment of property for municipal purposes is no part of the as- sessment for state taxation, 1t will nevertheless set the standard for the valuation to be made later by the new county assessor, and what is done now by the tax commissioner will to all in- tents and purposes be binding for the future. Omaha is, therefore, entitled to the benefit of the doubt wherever am- biguity exists and will uphold Mr. Fleming in pursuing such a course. \ President Roosevélt rightfully sizes up the relative position of our wars when he says that the civil war was, the greatest In our history and the greatest of modern times since the close of the Napoleonic struggles. This is no disparagement of the soldiers who were developed by our little brush with Spain, among whom President Roosevelt is himself to be counted. But it is a good thing to remind the present genera- tion occasionally of what has gone be- fore in order that the perspective may not become distorted. Our amiable popoeratic contemporary persists in overlooking the fact that Rosewater is supporting Judges Day, Baxter and Estelle as well as the other four republican nominees, all of whom take their nominations from the same republican judicial convention. How does the fact that the democrats en- dorsed three of the republican nominees distinguish them from their associates on the ticket? If the democrats can swallow part of the republican ticket, why shouldn't they fall in line for all of it? E— The property owners who antieipate damages on aceount of the concessions asked for by the Chicago Great Western railroad will not lose their right of re- covery by the passage of the ordinance now pending before the council and bave nothing to gain by delay in its passage. On the contrary, if the clos ing of streets and alleys and their ap- propriation for railway terminals causes any damage it will be more visible to the appraisers after than be- fore the change is effected. ] The school teachers of Peoria have presented a remonstrance to the State Board of Equalization in which they call attention to the fact that a number of corporations in Peoria have escaped taxation on their capital stock while the home owners and wage workers are compelled to pay their full share of taxes. If Omaha school teachers should dare to do such a thing, what would be- come of them? They would be put on the retired list and Shirleyized. e ] Baports from London bave it that the United States has got the better of the Alaskan boundary dispute and that the British are not Wkely to take the verdict graciously. If it had gone the other way John Bull would have expected Uncle Sam to look pleasant, o he may as well put on a forced smile himself, if he has to. eme— Signs of Life in Silver. Chicago Record-Herald. The price of siiver is going up. It may yet be worth its weight in wheat. —_—_— Convenlent Omission, ‘Washington Star. The congressional directory proves that it is not desirable to ask a man to write' his own blography. He is almost sure to leave out the most interesting things. Making the Task Easy. 7/ Washington Star. If the trust magnates fall into serious misunderstanding the attorney general may have little to do except to walt for them to demolish one another, like the Kilkenny cats. Civie Dutles Negleeted. Philadelphia Record. Men who habitually neglect the most im- portant duty of cltizens in abstaining from the exercise of the suffrage are generally the most bistant in their complaints con- cerning the evils of government. They ought to vote or else keep slient In regard 10 abuses for which their absenteeism from the polls makes them 80 largely responsible. Byt perbaps the votes of such people when BATU RDAY, cause of good government. at the Starting Post, Saturday Evening Post, A rallroad president has issued an order that hereafter no more clerks over 3 years of age are to be employed; and atraight- WAy & great ory has been ralsed that this 18 an attempt to say that a man begins to deteriorate at 8. Not at all. The raliroad man’'s point is that If by the age of % a man has not been able to demonstrate busi- ness capacity beyond the requiroments for a small clerkship he s not likely to be a pushing, progres ambitious addition to the staff in charge of an energetic enter- prise. And fsn't there truth in this? The perfod at which reward will come to intel- ligent and persistent effort and the meas- ure of that reward are very often matters of chance. But rarely indeed in this day of enormous demand for skilled labor of all degrees does a man who works find himselt desperately olutchihg at the lowest rung of tho ladder at 3. If he is there he ought to have a serious talk with himself, with the door locked against vanity and self- excuse. Chief Cnuses of Cancer. Chicago Inter Ocean. Dr. AMred Wolft, as the result of a wide and careful study of the statistics of cancer in Burope and America, reaches several Interesting conclusions. 1. He finds that cancer is most com- mon In thickly wooded and well watered distriots. 2. He discovers that all the districts of high cancer mortality are those in which beer or cider is largely drunk. Bavaria, for instance, shows the highest cancer death rate in Germany, and Bals- burg fn Austria. Both are great beer- arinking distriots. In France thers is the most marked contrast between the high canecer mor- tality in the beer-drinking departments and the low cancer death rate elsewhere. Dr. Wolff also finds that the increased consumption of beer in England of late years has been accompanied by & rising cancer mortality. 8. Dr. Wolff's researches indicate that cancer in contagious, and that race and heredity have much less to do with the disease than environment and habits. Finally, he concludes that the intem- perate use of acohol, and especially of beer, is probably the chief cause of cancer. INCORPORATED DISHONESTY, Judge Grosscup Pats a Finger om Grows Corporate Abuses. . Pittsburg Dispatch. The speech of Judge Grosscup at th Marquette club banquet in Chicago significant both in its utterances and cir- cumstances. Such weighty words from a judge who has recently been courted by the corporations are important. But the state of mind which 1 a politico- commercial organization fike the Marquette club to assign so plain-spoken a toast to “Incorporated Dishonesty” is even more expressive of the way pedple are thinking. Judge Grosscup's characterizdtion of t lategt phase of corporate legislation, namely, thgt it is the business of legisla- tures to furnish any kind of broad-gauge charter that promoters will pay fees for, is uncompromising and unquestionable, It is ‘in essence and effect to Incorporite dishonesty.” It is “nothing less than pub- lie policy favoring high prices and op- pression; for when there is the necessity to declare dividends on the creations of the imagination a means will be found.” The judge puts his finger on the widest public injury and that which s the real impeachment of all the prevalent corporate abuses. It tends to decrease the active ownership by. the, le of the great mass of property, and to produce the actual revolution of leaving the majority of the people without a fixed interest in property and the maintenance of érder. For a remeédy Judge Grosscup proposes a reconstruction of corporate legislation by the natfonal government. But in the ab- sence of any guaranty that national leg- islation will be any truer to the public need than state legislation the first remedy is the creation of an outspoken, Intelligent and clear public opinion. When that s so universal that every betrayal of the pub- lic interest by legiglation in the interest of the corporations is at once rebuked it will not make much difference whether the enactments are by the federal or state legislatures. CONCERNING COURTS-MARTIAL. Contrasts in Reviewing Authority of Army and Navy. New York Sun. ‘The remarkable order of Rear Admiral Evans, rebuking the members of a naval court-martial for their lenity iIn dealing with an offfcer accused of insulting a gentleman and of lying, has been followed by anothér order. This one is from Major General Adna R. Chaffee, commanding the Department of the: East, and it rebukes an army court-martial for too great se- verity In the case of an enlisted man who was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and allowances and im- prisonment for nine months for absence from his post without leave. General Chaffee's order {8 couched In much milder than that of Admiral Evans, It ted against the general tendency of the army court-martial to sentence sol- dlers to dishonorable discharge rather than agalnst the particular court whose action suggested it. The culprit in this case had served in the army two years. His record was good, he having been tried but once, and for a slight offense, within the year preceding his discharge. General Chaftee sald: “!'he tendency of courts-martial to sen- tenge soldlers to dishonorable discharge when other disciplinary measures would answer does mot meet with the approval of the department commander. Ordinarily dishonorable discharge should be included in the sentence of a general court-martial in those cases when a grave military of- fense has been committed or when the con- duct of the accused points conclusively to morbld viclousness or confirmed criminality, or where, by reason of evidence of fre- quent previous convictions by courts-mar- tial, it appears the accused has lost his self- pect, and with it his usefulness as a sol- dier. None of these conditions exist in the present case, and in the opinion of the re- viewing suthority a sufficlent punishment for the offense committed would be con- finement at hard labor for two months and forfeiture of §10 of his pay per month, for two months; therefore, the dishonorable discharge is remitted, the confinement re- duced to two months and the forfeiture re- duced to $10 of his pay per month for two months.” Rear, Admiral Evans’ complaint con- cerned a precisely opposite tendency, flagrantly illustrated in the case thst came before him for review, on the part of naval tourts to fail to provide adequate punishment for an officer who misconducted himself. In each case, as the public knows the facts, the opinfons of the reviewing of- ficer are justified completely. General Chaftee is the last man who will be accused of “coddling” his subordinates, whether they have commissions or serve in the ranks, and Admiral Evans would not dis- grace a fellow officer if the facts did not demand it. In fact, while army tribunals may be unnecessarily severe, there is a widespread notion that class feeling some- times protects naval officers on trial before their fellows and saves them from severs punishment that they deserve OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Premier Combes of France Is In for another fight, ff it be true that he is really behind the bill introduced into the Chamber of Deputies for the abolition of the regimental bands of the army. The argument Is that the bands cost so much money, and when one considers that thers are 20 bands in time of peace, averaging sixty musicians each, it is seen that the expense cannot be despised. M. Messimy, the radical deputy who reports the bill, estimates that it amounts to 3,000,000 france & year, or $600,00. This does not win the approval of the people, at least those of the garrison towns, which are rapidly pillng In protests through thelr mayors. Saint-Saens, Massenet and other musiclans also plead for the bands. Saint-SBaens says that “in peace thelr moral influence, not only upon the soldlers, but on the women and children of the country, Is enormous.” Band' concerts are certainly popular, but it may be a question whether the whole country should pay for them In order to please the women and children of Mar- sellles, Lyons and Versallles. One mayor also pleads for the band because of the children and nurses. e The Russlanization of Finland goes on steadily and remorselessly. One of the latest developments in the process is an imperial order which reached the gover- nor general a few days ago, bldding him r the situation and determine be- tween now and next June, whether there is any particular reason for summoning the Ordinary Diet of the country In 1904 General Bobrikoft, without doubt, will be able to make up his mind on this point without much difficulty, and will within the allottedperiod. For fear he should mis- understand the motive of the order, he Is instructed to gulde himself by the prin- ciple that It would be inexpedient to call any meeting of the Diet 0 long as there @re any remalning signs of excitement In the public mind. In other words, when the Finlanders no longer have any objec- tiens to utter agalnst Russlan rule they may be permitted to meet and enjoy an exchange of opinion. Meanwhile, those Finns who reébelled against military ser- vice last year, but joined the colors this year, ha recelved a free pardon. Sub- mission is all that s needed. - The Hungarlan crisls which threatens the integrity of the Austrian empire has risen solely from the demands of the Hungarians than the Hungarian language should be used in giving commands to Hungarian troops. The Austrians assert that the Hungafian language of command would destroy the unity of the Aus- tro-Hungarian army. The Hungarian re- Joinder is that German should be used in communication between regimental com- manders and thelr superior officers, but that from the colonel downward the Hun- garian should be used. This is the custom now in regiments with a majority of Mag- yars in them, as it is the custom to use Polish in the Polish regiments and Croa- tlan In the Croat regiments. The point is made by the Hungarians that an officer cannot cheer on his men in a language they cannot yinderstand, but he must be able to use the language of his men, be it German, Hungarian, Czech, Croat, Ruth- enion, Slovak, Roumanian or Itallan. Of such diverse elements is the Austrian army composed. . The remarkable serles of articles on the forelgn poljcy of France by M. Etienne has written for the Paris Figaro have at- tracted considerable attention, as he is generally regarded as a possible future minister of foreign affairs. He evidently regards a permanent conciliation, without restitution, between France and Germany as impossible. In ing with this ques- tion he points out it when M, Jaures, as representative of the soclalist party, was credited with the idea of advocating & Francé-German understanding he provoked | loud protests, although the idea had been previously ventilated and even lauded in the name of patriotism. But, says M. Etlenne, these were all dreams in which reality played no part. The course of true patriotism s straighter and simpler. It only has to remember in order to realize that France, whose rights and most sacred interests have been infynged, can never renounce the hope of fufure redress. The only question which has to be solved s to decide in what manner and in what atti- tude she must face the future. He then goes on to argue that, in spite of the ardent yearning for peace among the tolling dem- ocracy of town and ecountry, Frenchmen can have no fllusion as to the precarious- ness of an International situation which they did not create, and to which they have to submit with the resignation of national duty. o The king of Yap, it seems is, after all, not dead—legally, that He is, whether be knows it or not, in a condition the re- verse of that occupled by a detachment of the attacking party which, during the summer maneuvers, landed on the Maine coast, only to find itself long since con- structively ~destroyed by theoretically frightful carnage. The South Sea island which O'Keefe ruled and from which he disappeared is under Germian law, and not until next May, when three years will have elapsed since the salling of the royal yacht which never came to port, can the missing monarch be pronounced dead. Though legally Mving, King David of Yap is undoubtedly dead all right es a matter of fact, and his widow in Savannah will in due time find herself consoled by at least halt a million. The Queen Dowager Doll boy has had a misunderstanding with the German protectorate, and has found it convenient to withdraw from public life and view. — Orow, Roosters, Orow! Nashville American. Permit us to induige in a few cheers for the American hen. As a student of the census figures has shown, the poultry:and eggs produced and consumed in the United States last year were worth more than all the sliver and gold mined (n the world dur- ing the year. The egg and poultry product exceeds In value the wheat crop of twenty- elght of the most productive states of the union. Let us hopor the hen. She is an important member of American industrial soclety. “Der Name sagt Alles.” Esterbrook ist eine Garantie zliglichkeill dem Zweck. tioners Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE POLITICAL DRIFT, Senator Quay has reached the age of three score and ten, and yet shakes the plum tree with youthful vehemence. Bx-Senator Pettigrew is said to be col- onizing Boers In Mexico and incidentally looking out for a mjneral concession. Chicago 1s working on a ledge of graft that promises to yleld handsomely. Local pride would not permit St. Louls t¢ enjoy & monopoly of the business. How the minnows scurry for water when the whales appear| Harrlson of Chicago remained while Cleveland was in town. That great tribune of the plain people, Charley Towne, is spleling for Tammany Hall and rubbing elbows with the legions of graft on the New York hustings. G. B. McClellan nervily says his candi- dacy for mayor of New York represents a struggle for “the final supremacy of democratie principles throughout the United States.” W. R. Frome, the recently elected bor- ough treasurer of Pen Argyl, Pa. is the first democrat to hold an office in that town. He owes his success largely to his personal popularity. The Philadelphla ward politiclans who were convicted of levying tribute from the teachers and who appealed from their sentence have been remanded to jail, where, for some months, they will be tutored by an experience that should not fail to teach even & fool something useful. Jerry B. Bullivan, democratic eandidate for governor of Iowa, 18 the law partner of John B. Sullivan, the firm having offices in Des Moines. John B. is a republican and has been on the stump against Jerry B. In a speech before the Republican elub of Polk county he caused a good deal of amusement by repeatedly referring to his law partner as “Governor Sullivan.” At a political meeting in New York last week a Tammany man named Delancy was one of the orators. Speaking of certain men whose names are often seen In print, he was about to say that they were fond of wspaper notoriety, but, instead, said, ewspaperiety.” The 'mew word has “caught on” and on several subsequent oc- casions has been used to convey the same 1dea. shallow Mayor indoors PRYAN SEB AT LAST. Smoke of Two Battles No Longer Ob- = = His View. Minneapolis Journal. * Willlam Jennings Bryan is getting far enough away from practical politics® to begin to see things as they are. The smoke of battle no longer obscures his view, the personal equation no longer affects his perspective. He is now getting to the point where he can see some plain facts that have long been obvious to eome of his closest sympathizers and friends. He has confessed to a personal friend that the free coinage of silver is as dead the old barn-door nail; so -dead that it will not be mentioned at the democratic national convention of 1%04. As o theory Mr. Bryan is still loyal to it, but he con- cedes that the gold standard is now so firmly lodged throughout the world that free silver as a practical proposition is no longer ani Never was Mr. Bryan wiser than when he spoke that opinion. But wisdom has come to Mr. Bryan not in driblets but in floods. He went on to #say to his friends: “No other man in the republican party equals Roosevelt in the esteem of the com- mon people, and cspecially in the west. None equals Roosevelt in his power to command the respect of all nations and to wield an influence on the world at large.” True, every word of it. The common people are golng to give the president another term, and in that term unhampered by considerations: of political expediency, they expect to see him accomplish great things for America. WHITTLED TO A POINT. The way the fashionable hat s bullt this season, & mere man can't tell whether it is on straight or not.—Somerville Journal. “Fish,” he #aid, * “Belter have some niore," licitously.—Chicago P “All the money he makes he spends for es," “'Yes, he's a bird, isn't he?” “That's what! "He's a regular unur- goose.'~Delroit Pree Press. “And he was a great hadnwriting ex- pert?” “Great! 1 should say so! Why, he had not the slightest difficulty in proving to tho jury that for the last ten yeal have been forging my own siguature.’—New York Times. “It looks to me as If some of me- trust magnates feit (h!mlalv.l superior to the soyernment itself.” “Well,” answered Senator Sorghum, 1must Tot "OVerIooK the. fact et g enm magnate !s a great deai surer ila {han a government official."~ Among the applicants for & elvio posi. tion Was & man that had been for everal Yeuge & atreet car conduotor. “‘Pagsing on to the ncxt qu wald the civil scrvice examine., Fao yn-‘u kiow what ‘conscience money’ 87" ‘Only by hearsay,” eald the applicant, 1 never saw any,"—Chicago Tribune Tess—Mr. Slokache tells me he calied on vou the other evening. s he thinks Jou're as beautirul o8 Venoe: Jess—Pshaw! he behaved like & Venus de Milo himself. Tess—How do you mean? Jess—O, the Venus de Milo hasn't any arms, you know.—Philadelphia Press. *When a man becomes Fu’ “eularly severs and bitter about feminine follies,” ecom- mented the rhlln!mhef 1 always wonder | whll hl' fe has been dolng—if he's a "GJ\}I‘I uthe l-nlt?" M hen, ive him no considerati. at all."“Chicago Fost. g “Lilllan {s not sure that she loves Walter, flometlmel she thinks ehe does and at ot she's convinced she doesn't.” nd yet she is going to marry b h, yes—that's all settled,” But if she is not sure sh 'hfi doesn’t she break th: ecause she's 27. THE GAMES WE USED TO PLAY. Baltimore News. ritten by an em!arrassed rhymester th the braln fag. Fill in the lines to sult ourself.) often think te tum to tum of when t tum was young, And playod o {um te tiddle des, the tun {o flowers among— All bappy, brignt and tum te tum wa what'te tum te da; When we te tum te tum' te tum, the gam: we used to play: With ring around the rowy, And golng to London town, Postoffice and Jerusalem, The bridge ts burning down, And hide and seek to tum te tag, And all te tum S0 gay— Fond memory often sees again The games we used to play! ‘When George and Sue and Molly-O woul come to ses me-Oh! How happy were fe tum te tum, the tu we used to know! The tiddle tum te tiddle des was tum t tum away, And then it was we all joined in the game we used to play With ring around et cetera, And so forth London town, And tum te tum Jerusalem, The bridge, and so forth, down, And hide et ‘cetera and all And tum te tum =0 ga) Fond memory (please sce above) The games we used to play. And now wa're older than we were, te tu te tum, of course, And play no more the tum te tum and sla hobby horse: But s we sit and think of those ‘e tum far away, We long to \Iuy again te tum the gam te tum te play: With ring around et cetery, And so forth London town; Et_cetera, et cetora, et cetera, Wt cetera, we say— Et_cetera, et cetera The games we used to play! The Clubman This is the name of our new sack suit this sea- son. It appeals to the smart dressing young man —cut over special patterns—made more extreme than you've ever seen ready-to-wears. are big shouldered, with lars are narrow and snug—narrow, The coats semi-shaped waists—col- flat lapels— swagger fabrics in which subdued plaids and over- plaids predominate, choose a brown or gray. If you're “up to snuff,” you’ll $15, $18, $20. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. RBrowning: King §-C | R. S. WILCOX, Manager. ! 1 l