Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1903. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE CANADIAN DISPLEASURE. It was to be expected that the Cana- ' n““ATER EDITUR dians wounld be displeased with any Punbxlm EVERY MORNING. decision of the boundary commission v | Which did not recognize all their claims TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. B‘"’ Bee (without Sunday), One Year.§4.00 aily Bee and Sunday, One Year. Tilustrated Jee, One Ye Sunda; , One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dllly g:: (without Aund-yb. per cnp{ ‘ R weel ), T30 "M ) Evonl:: Bee (Includlnl Sunday), 100 hlnu of irregularitios In delivery lhoul be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OF!‘" E! Omlhl—ne l!y ll.ll uulldhll, Twen- streets. o1 Pear! Street. Y Buflding, rk Row Bullding. Weashingten-go1 Fourtesntn Sireet CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft Press or postal order ayable to The ‘Bee Publishing Compiny. nly 2-cent stamps ed In payment of mall accounts, Fersonal ehecks, except on Omana or esstern exchanges, not acoepted. HE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Dou; Geor . B. Taschuck, Publishing’ Company, being duly sworn, says thn the actual number of full an gomplete coples of The Dally Morning, Fvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 183, was as fol- ow: 16. 17, 18, BERNERRERRESS Less unsold and returned oople- Net total sales, Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed tn my presence and sworn to Lefore me this 30th day Of September, A. D, 1903, AL GATE, (Seal.) Publie. The Omaha Bryanite organist rarely opens his mouth without putting his foot in. E——— The sheriff’s office, like the treasurer's office, is a good one to turn over to a new incumbent after two terms. aEmmees—— The Fowler bill is the straw man that now has to be set up and knocked down by the Bryanite organ just to keep in practice. E————— The French Parliament reopens today. The French legislitors, however, ‘will mot get much the mrf ©of our American lawmakers. —— Nebraska farmers are not complaining weriously about crops or prices. Prosper- ous farmers afford poor subjects for n.m to a calamity mt! ey fi-n doesn't l1ke 1 th rmnuw decision in the boundary dispute. The foot ball players who fdil to score al- ways blame it on the wmpire. SEmem— Another big rallroad system is promis- ing to install block sf Is on all its lines. The days of the old flagman and lantern swinger are surely numbered. The name of the papal secretary of state as announced is Mgr. Merry del Val. That ought to keep Pope Plus in & jovial mood for a little while at least. The ruthless turning down of that Bouth Omaha heathen.Chinee—Tommy Toy—is bemoaned and bewailed by the democrats, but the country will survive the shock. Our amjable democratic contemporary i still wearing blinders whenever public attention is directed to those rotten county bridge deals and court house vault steals, eee—— ‘While the troops from this section are all mobllized at Fort Riley the time should be propitious for the launching of a few new Indian war scares from nelghboring reservations. T e—— America has provided asylum for the oppressed of all countries in the past. If the Macedonian jrefugeez want to come to.‘h United States dnd behave themselties there is ing.to hinder. . —— v The w\n s not wo‘!ry‘ln. aver stock market gonditions hLalf a8 much as the east. The crop of western suckers gath- ered iniby the. get-rich-quick watered stock congerns was coulderuhly lnlow the lve?@ @ The juliges and clerks of election hiive all been #ppointed for Douglas county-- nearly of them altogether. What the » want is simply a_fair count and an honest enforcement of the elec- tion lawy &nd this they will insist on. \; g “Coln" Harvey has. been heard from again with an endorsement of Attorney ¥olk of Missourl for a presidential no-lu*. He s remarkably silenf on’ the bugning question: when# Coin's Financigl Behool wiligeopen for- pupils. reform mud batteries are concen! their fire on Sears and Button, are represented as being afiliated ‘with the republican faction that serit. G. M. Hitchcock to congress. 1 gentlemen were really guilty they doubtlels * by this time re- The Jobbers-and wholesalers would have mfl.. 1o the real cstate sultablg warehouses and emJ for them.if they in ,\(nukn wt some men of prominence in that country expressed a fear at the outset of the deliberations of the com- misslon that the result would be un- favorable to Canada's contention. This 2 | Apprehension they based upon the view 2¢ | that the anxiety of the British repre- '5% | sentative to do nothing that might dis- turb friendly relations between England and the United States would lead him to side with the American position. In reality, however, the Canadian fear was an acknowledgment of the weakness, not to say the utterly preposterous char- acter of that country’s claims. As has frequently been pointed out, the Canadian contention in regard to the Alaskan boundary is of compara- tively recent date. It was trumped up shortly affer the discovery of gold. By our treaty of 1867 with Russia the possession of Alaska was formally turned over in that year to the United States. For seventeen years after Alnska became American territory there was not so much as a hint from any British or Canadian source that any question was or ever would be ralsed as to the eastern boundary of that terri- tory. Then, in 1884, and since that time, British Columbia has advanced claims or interpretations of the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825- which, if allowed, would curtail American and swell British terri- tory. It is needless to go into details and sufficient to say that what Canada sought was an outlet through Lynn canal, an impossible proposition which under no ecircumstances could the United States have acceded to. The obvious fact is that the American posi- tion appealed with such convincing force to the judicial judgment of Lord Alver- stone, the British representative on the commission, that he was compelled to side with that view, albeit he may at the beginning ‘have been inclined to favor Canada. Whatever patriotic con- cern he may have felt for the interests of a colony of Great Britain ylelded before the clear and invulnerable Ameri- can contention. Canadian displeasure at the outcome is wholly useless. The decision of the commission, it 18 not to be doubted, will stand and what has been an irritating and somewhat dangerous issue will be removed from further controversy. In securing the Portland canal and the two small islands at its mouth Canada gets all that she had any reason to expect. The concession may not be’of very great value, but at hpy rate it is not alto- gether worthléss. A leading Canadian paper, in mmmentlng on the deciston, remarks: “These easy trlumphs for American Glplomlcy in the settlement of boundary disputes are full of dan- gerous possibilities, There is a broad frontier between Canada and the United States, .If. fafsing 4 boundary. claim s to make subsequent acknowledgment & mere matter 6f form, the Americans are likely. to. make our frontier bristle with boundary issues before Canada is much older.”” The utterly gratuitous nature 6.00 5 of this is shown in the fact that Canada, not the United States, raised the Alaskan boundary issue. AN ECONOMICAL CONGRESS. According to Washington reports it is the . lutention of Mr. Cannon, the pros- pective speaker of the house of repre- sentatives, to insist upon economy in ap- propriations. It is easy to believe the statement, for Mr. Cannon has always been in favor of a reasonable economy and it is to be expected that in making up the house committee on appropria- tions he will select men who are known to be in sympathy with his views in re- gard to public expenditures. The mat> ter, however, is one which cannot be wholly controlled by the house of repre- sentatives. As one Washington corre- spondent points out, the house commit- tee on appropriations has for years had at its head rigld economists, yet they were unable to keep down expenditures as they desired, because the senate has fovarigbly increased the appropriations as they came from the house. That this experience will be repeated in the Fifty- elghth congress s altogether probable. As now understood, it will be the gen- eral policy of the house to make no ap- propriations for new objects. No new ulldings are to be authorized, the committee on rivers and harbors will 'nét be allowed to report a bill and other propositions for undertaking new work are to be shut off mercilessly. The re- ported plaA of Mr. Cannon is to confine the appropriations to meeting: the run- ning expenses of the government and carrying on work already under way. It is the opinion that this policy will have the support of the administration, ex- cept that President Roosevelt is ex- pected to urge liberal appropriations for increasing the navy. This is one par- ticular as to which the president very earnestly believes that it is the part of wisdom and sound policy to make ltberal expenditures and he will undoubtedly urge doing so. In regard to this it will not be difficult to effect a compromise and it is safe to say that Mr. Cannon .|and others in congress disposed toward economy will yet be willlng to make some concession to the administration in the matter of naval increase. It is not to be doubted that the position of the president in favor of a larger navy has very general popular approval. While our people do not desire to enter into naval rivalry with other nations, those who have given the subject thoughtful consideration realize that our sea power s not now as strong as it should be and that its increase is manifestly desirable and expedient, A'policy of economy and retrenchment, the public service, should certainly be observed. This is the wise course under Cannon will have no more important duty as speaker of the house than that of exerting his influence for the preven- tion of extravagance in public expendi- tures and nothing he might do would be so sure to enhance his claims to popular regard and confidence, TURN ON THE LIMELIGHT. County Commissioner O'Keeffe, who Is known to possess the courage of his convictions, still insists that the tax- payers of Douglas county have been plundered and swindled out of thousands of dollars by favored contractors whq have been allowed to take advantage of the county. Commissioner O'Keeffe asserts that he is in possession of in- disputable proof that the contract prices for bridges in this county, and notably the Elkhorn bridge, were outrageously excessive, and furthermore that the con- tractors have failed to comply with the conditions of the contract as embodied in the plans and specifications. Less than five years ago the Canton Bridge company bullt the bridge that spans the Elkhorn south of Waterloo for $4,600, while the county was com- pelled to pay ‘for the bridge near Klk- horn City, bullt two years later, $13,868.16. The Elkhorn bridge is ten feet shorter than the Waterloo bridge and the Waterloo bridge is constructed entirely of iron where wooden jolsts are used in the Elkhorn bridge. This would indicate a discrepancy of $9,000, but that is not all. The county paid out $483.25 for tubing on the Elkhorn bridge which the contractor failed to put in and which caused the bridge to sag so that it would have collapsed during the floods this summer had it not been strengthened by timbers, The tubing omitted by the bridge contractor was charged for at the rate of $25 per vertical foot—just double the price which the same contractor accepted the following year for the same kind of work. It now transpires also that as soon as Commissioner O'Keeffe com- menced to pry into this palpable job the plans and specifications for the Elk- horn bridge were spirited away and can- not be found in the court house. . An equally scandalous plece of jobbery has been uncovered by Commlissioner O'Keeffe in the county vault work. The aggregate amount paid for such work is $14,195, which, he Insists, represents at least $7,000 as overcharge. A con- tract for vault fixtures in the office of the county clerk was awarded in 1902 for the sum of $4,788 and payment was made for this job July 11, 1903, in the absence of Commissioner O'Keeffe, and a warrant was ordered issued without even referring the bill to the appropriate committee. Duplicate drawings and sketches were submitted by Mr. O'Keeffe to various manufacturers on matters Is attainable by any imaginable expenditure of enterprise, of effort and of riches? Fleeing from Military Serviee, New York Times. Ten thousand young men eligible for mill- tary service In the German army have not reported for the enlistment this year. This is double the number of previous years. Bvidently the kaiser's subjects are becom- ing weary of furnishing amusement for him. It is all very well for Germany's young “war lord” to exhibit the soldiers to admiring foreigners as his playthings, but there are more desirable vocations than that of wearing a uniform and becoming an automaton obedlent to the siightest pull on the imperial string, and sifice one must not act of his own volition In the fatherland the young Germans with tendencies to in- dependence are leaving the kalser's do- minlons. Occupntions for Retired Mem. Kansas City Journal. There are many ways besides reading and traveling in which the retired profe slonal or other business man may get en- Joyment for himself and make himself useful to others. e may advise and aid his sons and daughters and other young people who are starting along the thorny paths which he has trod with success. He may also exert his influence for decency and progress in polit What a boon it would be to a nation If it should be- come the practice for its successful pro- fessional and business men to retire as soon as they acquired a competency and devote their remaining energy and ability and their extensive experience to pro- moting the public welfare. The Real Thing in a Salutatory. Custer County Clarfon. Our main object in coming to Arapaho is to make some money. We have been in the newspaper business for a number of years, and while we have had lots of fun we haven't lald up many treasures on earth, and have been too busy to pay a great deal of attention to our account in the other world, 8o we may say to you confidentially that we are confounded poor. We want to make a living and lay up a little money, and that is why we are here. Now as to the kind of newspaper we will run, our first aim always will be to print the news, and, in dolng so we shall aim to tell the truth’as near as {s consistent with £o0d health, except in wedding and funeral notices. When a couple get married, no matter how homely or frowsy the bride may be, she will appear in these columns as a model of beauty, style and female Toveliness and a general socal favorite, and the groom?” who really cuts mighty lttle figure at a wedding anyway, will be men- tioned as a capable and promising young man, ete, althongh he may not have money or credit enough to buy the neces- sary flannels for the first baby. When a man dles he will always have been a good father and kind husband—unless he happens to be a bachelor—a pillar of the community and one whose loss will be frreparable. LEVITY IN THE ‘TAILED COAT. Unorthodox Garments Tabooed by = West Virginia Presbytery. ‘Washington Post. Something moves us to wrestle for a spell with the Greenbrier Presbytery of West Virginia on. the following proposition just enunelated by that eminent and worthy the same class of work, and, while the | *02Y highest bid was $25,636, the lowest bid- der, the Berger Manufacturing company of Canton, O, offered to duplicate the work for which the county. had .paid $4,780 completed for Whnere there 18 so much smoke there must be some fire and that fire should not be allowed to be smothered by sham investigation. . Manifestly there is some- thing rotten in Denmark in bridge and vault contracts upon which the lime- light of publicity should be turned. Mr. Rosewater is now supporting for judge of the supreme court John B. Barnes, He is also supporting & number of the republican nominees for judge of the dis- trict court in the Fourth judiclal district. Is it not pertinent to inquire as to the particular character of the pledges which Mr. Rosewater has exacted from Mr. Barnes and from Messrs. Sutton, Sears, Redick and Troup?—World-Herald. The character of the pledges exacted from Messrs. Barnes, Sutton, Sears, Redick and Troup is the same the pledges that have been exacted from Judges Day, Estelle and Baxter, who have been endorsed by the democratic convention and are being supported by the demo-rep. organ. It is intimated that Senator Gorman ‘would like to have a political joust with President Roosevelt by drawing the personality of the president into the Maryland state campaign. The presi- dent, we may depend on it, will not dignify the Maryland senator’s attacks with attention. No matter what Gorman may do, he cannot make peopie twist the result in Maryland into an endorse- ment or repudiation’ of Rooseevit. E———— The assertion that the republicans are slugging Judge Sulllvan because he ruled that the Nebraska constitution does not bar the bible out of the public schools is absolutely baseless. Judge Sullivan is not being criticised because he ruled on the bible-in-the-puiflic-schools gques- tion, but because his so-called ruling was a straddle that would best be described by “now you see it and now you don't.” If the janitor of the school board rooms in the city ball has nothing to do but sit around in the secretary's chair and give political directions to school janitors, it is high time for some- thing to be done to keep him busy at the work for which he is paid out of the school treasury. Brooklyn Eagle. Men who have lost in prodigious capitall- zation and speculation probably feel that the whole commercial fabric is ripping with them, but they will have to be reminded that it Is & hard job to pull the crops up by the reots. The B of Cain, Loulsville Courfer-Journal. Tilman has been acquitted In South Carolina, but before the American people he stands as foul & murderer ever es- caped the gallows, and every member of the jury that exculpated him shares with him public condemnation and contempt. 1 Aladdin’'s Lamp. New York Tribune. Upon the lines of an enormous American system of allled rallroads more than §100,- 000,000 have been spent upon improvements within three years. Was not such an out- “Resolved, That it Is the solemn and pain- ful conviction of this Greenbrier Presbytery that some of ‘the ministerial brethren are departing from the time-honored custom of the fathers in wearing bobtailed coats, and the ' presbytery wemsld hereby warn -the brethren against mq{pnwty to this custom of the dudes. ‘We do not deny t t thm is a certain levity of suggestion, if mnot of actual thought and purpose, in the bobtailed coat. In combination with a silk hat, patent leather skates and gaudy neckties—as fre- quently occurs—it is, we unhesitatingly ad- mit, an agency of grief and apprehension. It is not at all difficult to belleve that the bobtailed coat, projected to its ultimate velopment, may I to violence, especially In such a serfous and right-minded region as West Virginia. Even in large cities, where the golf and tennis regalla, the white canvas shoes and the mutilated Panam hats of the aristocracy have taught us self- restraint, and Inured us to abstiaence from Homicide, we still retain the flerce yearnthg for a gun at moments of especial provoca- tion. Up to this point, in fact, we are with the Greenbrier Presbytery, tooth and nail. But is it well and fruitful that we should put behind us the turpitude of the bob- tailed dude, only to surrender ourselves to the wild dissipationd of the opposite ex- treme? There may be as great extrava- gance, albelt of a different kind, in the ves- tures and habiliments of Brother Bittinger or Brother Price as in the high-water sacks and unvelled legs of the unregen- erate. There is the vanity of ugliness as well as the vanity of grace. Clothes cut out with a knife and fork: trousers that bag villainously at the knee; walstcoats too tight across the stomach, and coats with balloon effects bétween the shoulders —these are no better evidences of & pure mind and a contrite heart than the very briefest roundabout or the most prismatic front. Let us be temperate in all things! 1t will pay, —_— PERSONAL NOTES. A Pittsburg astronomer claims the dis- covery of a new spot on the sun—or is it the place where Boston knocked the ball through? It is announced'that President Plaza of Ecuador .will_come to the United States soon. He will remain long enough to visit the St Louls exposition. The celebrated German weather prophet, Dr. Rudolph Falb, has just died near Ber- lin at the age of 65. He first studled the- ology, which he abandoned for the study of meterorology. The . results of Prof. Langley's experi- mentation on flying machines illustrates the truth of the saying that riches have wings—the appropriation for the experi- mentn 1o exhausted. A disputch from Indianapolis announces that Senator Fairbanks is “In the hands of his friends” with respect to the vice presi- dentfal nomination. But he wants it under- stood that he s not seeking the honor. Mrs. Dowle, wife of the alieged prophet, had a $L60 diamond pin stolen from her in New York last Friday. It is a striking commentary on the Dowie movement that the wifs of Its prophet I8 able and willing to sport a §1,500 pin. It seems that since Hamlet's day the Dune bus grown fastidious, constdering quality w3 well as quantity {n his carouse. At any rets brewers from Copeahagen are now in Chicago studying American methods of beermaking. The Philtppine government, like every- thing else, has to advertise. Men teachers are wanted at good sslaries, and few tak- . The opportunity is an excellent one for college graduates who cannot find any- thing else 10 do to galn experience—a great deal of experience crowded into & short time. A party of ulne representative British DOINGS IN THE ARMY, Matters of Interest Gloaned from the Army Navy Register. The combtroiier of the treasury has had under consideration the question submitted to him by the War department, whether officers of the state militia, with the rank of captain, belonging to organizations not attending maneuyers at Fort Riley, may be assigned to duty’ as first or second lieu- tenants to fill vacancles in companies of militia of the state to which they belong and attending the maneuvers and draw pay for such temporary rank. The comptroller says that these officers do not belong to the part of the organized militia of the state that is to participate as an organiza- tion In the maneuvers, although they are a part of the organized militla of * the state. The law makes no provision for flling vacancies in that part of the organ- ised militia that is to participate in the maneuvers by detall from other organiza- tions of the state militia or otherwise, and a captain of an organization not partiei- pating would not by virtue of an assign- ment to duty as a first or second lieutenant in an organization participating become an officer or part of the organization for the purposes of pay as of the rank to which he was assigned to duty. Not belng a part of the organized militia that was authorized to participate In the maneuvers he would not be entitled to pay under the militla act. Nothing more has been heard of the prop- osition to create a ‘“military” assistant secretary of the navy. It may be positively stated that any such plan will be opposed with uncompromising emphasis by Mr. Moody, and it is certain the idea will be rejected with equal promptness and vigor if 1t found its way to a house or senate naval committee. It would be possible, of course, to introduce a bill providing for another assistant secretary of the navy who should be a naval officer, but such a bill will never be approved by the civilian head of the Navy department and would probably never emerge from the committee. The asumption of the command of the Department of the East by General H. C. Corbin revives the suggestion of the di- vision of that command, which Is deemed geographically out of proportion to other military departments. The general staff, among other matters in connection with the rearrangement of the department, is now considering the establishment of a Department of the South, one that shall embrace the southern states, with head- quarters at Atlanta, Ga. The first year's institution at the School for Farriers and Horseshoers at Fort Riley, Kan, has justified the anticipations, and as soon as the bullding authorized for the school can be completed the service will derive a continuous benefit from this establishment. Battery and troop col manders should not send experienced horse- shoers and farriers to the school, but men of excellent character and aptitude for the work. The results of instruction so far tend to show that a first-class man with- out previous experience can be trained quite as rapidly as one who has been im- properly taught heretofore. The army has suffered much In the past from {gnorant horseshoers and a supply of tralned men from this establishment will be bf great benefit to the -service in the’future. The two veterinarians assigned to duty at the school - have complied a pamphlet for in- struction entitled, “The Army Horse in Accident and Disease.” The secretary of war has authorized the publication of this pamphlet and it will be ready soon. As the time approaches for the, arriyal In Washirigton' o¥ Mr. Roof luc:eubr ag secretary ‘of war interest Is afoused in the prospective attitude of Governor Taft Those who know him are inclined to thin! that he will not be profoundly interested in administrative matters or that he will enjoy the routine tasks which are imposed upon the head of the War department. Governor Taft has a legal mind, and is known to still entertain ambitions for the bench for which he is professionally in- clined and equipped. There is a possibllity, of course, that Governor Taft, who has had 50 much to do with insular affairs, will be glad to take up the novelty of military administration. Mr. Root rather took to insular management, and although he complished a good deal in the way of army legislation, he gave more of his time and thought to colonial affairs than to purely army matters. The Inclination of a man to take up something new leads some people to think that Governor Taft may tackle the military part of his dutles In the War department and give less attention to the insular subjects—matters which he can at- tend to properly with factlity. It s ex- pected that Mr. Root will leave London for home about November 1. This should bring him to Washington about November 7. The annual report of General F. C. Alns- worth, United States army, chlef of the record and pension office, contains an at- tack upon the practice of legislation which constitutes one of the most absurd fictions of this government. General Alnsworth seeks to render it impossible to change official record by the enactment of law. He points out very clearly in a loglcal way, which does not omit the quotations from the legal literature on the subject, the un- constitutionality and the impropriety of that class of legislation in which congress undertakes to nullify the proceedings, find- ings or sentences of courts-martial, to re- voke executed orders of dismissal or dis- honorable discharge, to remove charges of desertion “or to substitute honmorable for dishonorable end to a fi eral Alnsworth puts it right “by declaring by legal enactment that things that were done were not done, and that things not done were, In fact, done.” General Alns- worth does not regard the situation as being entitled to much of & remedy, and he points how, by means of law, the effect of dis- missal, honorable discharge and desertion, for instance, might be removed In a class of cases, or in an individual case, if con- gress saw it to do this, but in either event there 1s no getting away from the fact that such laws form objectionable legisla~ tion, General Ainsworth says: “A fact in the mlilitary history of a sol- dler is beyond the power of.recall, and can no more be obliterated than can the fact of the conviction of & man in a civil court of a felony be obliterated from the record of his life, If any disabllity remains, this may be removed by pardon, or by legislative act if it cannot be reached by pardon, but the tact of his conviction remains. If it were practicable to set aside the fact that & dier deserted or was dishonorably dis charged and make it non-existent, it would be equally possible to obliterate any other or all other actual facts from his military history. It might thus be made to appear that A and B and C, or & whole orguniza- tion, never were in the military service at all, aithough there be conclusive record proof that they were. And if any one thing can be set up as an existent fact in the past military record of & soldier, although no such thing actually occurred, so might any number of things, and a new and fictl- tlous record thus be given the soldier cover- ing the whole term of his military service. The exercise of such a power as this would Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE TALK OF THE STATE PRESS, Minden News: The new revenue law is a republican law, and to give it a fair trial we should have a republican assessor. A fusion assessor will, of course, do all in his power to make the law a fallure. York Republican: Criminals in Nebraska are rapldly learning to look to God for their pardons since the close of the Savage era. Governor Mickey evidently has no intentlon of encroaching upon the pre- rogative of Deity in this particular. Fremont Tribune: The republican state ticket will have somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 majority. We are getting back to oldtime figures, which means the party must disavow every crooked act and keep in the middle of the straight and narrow path. Norfolk Press: It is to be hoped the El- kins law will eventually compel the rail- roads to stop Issuing passes to anybody. Of course such a course will make it in- convenient for the people who have been riding free, but it will make both the rail- roads and business men more independent. The politiclans who have been riding on passes while loving the dear people will get no sympathy. David City Banner: If you are for Roosevelt, prove your faith by your works this year and help roll up a big majority for the entire republican ticket. Don't sulk in your tent and oppose the ticket because some personal friend failed to re- celve a_nominatign for some petty office. Next time you may be successful in secur- | ing the nomjnation for your friend and you will want the support of the.other fellows. Place party interests above per- sonal interests and line up like men. Don't play the schoolboy. Norfolk News: Perhaps the people of Ne- braska will enter an energetic umpll(n next year with a natiopal campalgn on, but 80 far this year, except Jn county fights A remote localities, it appears that this tam- paign will go down into history as one of the calmest, quletest, most peaceful and good natured of any campaign during re- cent years. The people generally are pleased to notice the absence of bitterness and mud- slinging, which should never again be re- vived. They can approximate a decision just as well and effectually without it, and really it is no inspiration to see the characters of men torn from them merely because they are candidates for office. ‘Wayne Herald: A committee of Norfolk citizens appeared before the State Board of Public Lands and Bulldings In Lincoln Tuesday to urge action looking to.the re- construction of the insane asylum at Nor- folk. The delegation was informed that an architect was working on the plans of the proposed bulldings and would have them ready by November. The asylum was de- stroyed by fire several years ago and there has been delay in having the institution re- bullt. The last legislature, however, made an appropriation for that purpose, and it looks as though there had been ample time since then to prepare plans and start the work. Not only Norfolk, but all northeast Nebraska 1s interested in seeing the asylum rebullt on the old site. ‘Wayne Herald: People well remember the many sherift's sales of real estate, under foreclosure, previous to the good times ushered in by the McKinley adminis- tration. Every sherlff in the state usually had plenty to do in selling land to satisfy mortgages. Now that official can figure on no business in that line. THis condition speaks well for the prosperity and financial bility of the country. It shows that the increase of wealth has not been confined to a minority of the people, but has been en- joyed by all. In reflecting and comparing the number of sherift's sales prior to .in- stalling corrective republican policies, with none now, voters are not likely to turn against the principles of that party, nor oppose its nominees, if they are men of in- tegrity and well qualified for the offices to which they aspire, as they assuredly are in Wayne county from the top to the bottom of the ticket. FLOATING FUN. ‘You ought not to kill your neighbors,™ sald the missionary. ‘How else can we properly ussimilate |}Jhrm"' asked the cannibal king.—Chicago o8, “‘Does your daughter play Mozart?" quired the young man wi th gold glasses. “I think she mwl. answered s, Cum- rox, affably. “But I think she prefers bridge whist." Washington Star, Mrs. Up.mhn—l-low did your garden party come out Mrs, Highmore—Hadn't you heard? Tt turned out to be a warm, beautiful evening, and everybody came that I had invited. { never wes so provoked in my lite. —Cl!lcm(o Tribune. that she atmed Misa ‘‘Ridiculous!" ll’"e!d Miss P rey. iVaan't ity though? C by “Yes," just as you' ! hair,"— Philadelphia. Eress. 1 “Tell me, Angelina,” her lover exclaimed, “do you ever have a yearning for something jou cannot exactly” define—an irresistibie on,dn' of the heart for that which s not Can you guess the object of your ““The idea of her nntenflin thought my ha'r was gra; xol Passay. replied the young woman from Boston, coyly, “when I get that way I always eat ple.”—New York Tribune. “I declar',” sald ‘Brother Dickey, “I ter be mo' keerful in llllur’—l sho’ has! ‘“What's the trouble now?" “‘Well, suh, I whirled in en rain des two hours en a half, en regular deluge dat come mighty nigh drownin' de mule 1 had. Providence is 80 partial ter me!’—Atlanta Constitution. Fot rayed for ay come A 1 know that I may strive for wealth in Bred rk i 1 Kknow'my déarest foy may turn fo 1 know my pet ambition may be As here land there: my frail lite veer®d, But yet, when to the end my race draws near, I'll thank'my lucky stars it T may hear (Though no!hn else of good a friend might speal) These words: He never ehowed & vellow L1 streak.. ; <o ~ ZBaltimore American, THAT'S DIFFERENT. James Barton Adams in Denver Po: When & man in nobby clothes spent money through & he He's the biggest turn.p in the social bag; Men his praises loudly sing, tell LAm he 5 Just the thing. As lhay ‘work lhu pulling process on his But l( ht should meet a hitch In his flight and hit the ditch And the cash from out his biower cease his to blow, They'll deseit him in & Jump, sy he was a reckless chum Thats 4 @ifterent proposition, don't ye know i} Take a man who is & saint, on his honor not a With & npulltlon any one would prl ot e o 80 " prese” WAT" hie moral instincts bless ‘While they laud his many virtues to the skies. If for office he should run and be stingy with his mon, They will paint him black as Beelzebub low, And will say the scheming scamp needs some neckwear made of emp— That's & different proposition, don't ye know? In the ranks of gllded life should & maider: or a wife AU the fount of fortune sip the waters sweet 1f her mk account 18 great and her gown- Ing up to date All'Sockoty Will worship at her feet. Should misfortune make & play and her riches melt away Every friend will vanish as the sunkissed snow, And in snobdom everywhere she will get the frozen stare— That's a different proposition, don't y® know? Thus we see it every day; things that smoothly come our way We are ever prona to Ereet with smiling We have wealth of golden words to dis- tribute to the birds When our selfish nature figures in the case; Everything that adds a bite to our selfish o praise In terms of eloquence aglo But Wil fump 1t in a minute if for us there’s nothing in it That's a_different proposition, don't ye know? g Just the Weather | road shouldered $15.00 saits ‘ 1 To wear one of those new b that you hear so much about—some at $18.00 and $20.00 and $25.00. You don’t need to cover it up with a top coat either for some time to come—because warmth goes with other details of excellence in the Browning, King & ©Co’s clothes. well dressed, and undertake pride in the clothes of our manufacture that they We have a certain pride in seeing our eustomery to give them just cause Ior wear, Ask to see the special clubman. NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. owning: King §-