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AR Remit by draft, express or postal order able to The Dee 7 -~ hs.ccmu. P.ml’;llrchlcks. elx:::l(."x“ a or eastern exchanges, not 3 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Dougias County, ss.. jo B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing” Company, being duly swol Says that the actual number of full an e oked,nol, T, Sl i vening an junday ee the month of September, Bi ‘was as fol- lows: 1 29,120 16.. 29,270 1. 18.. 29,370 Net total sales.. Net average sales. 4 GHEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to pefors me this dih day of Septembor A 1903. M. B, HUNGAT (Seal.) Notary Publie. The last week of the campaign of 1903 is on. Now for the home stretch! Yelser wants to sit on the district bench and he doesn’t care who knows it. It 18 not always the 'varsity with the biggest endowment that piles up the biggest foot ball score. The democratic nominee for police Judge against Judge Berka appears to be actually wasting good money get- ting out campaign cards to promote his candidacy. That Bennett will threatens to take up valuable time from Colonel Bryan that he could readily coln into more money than Is involved in the whole controversy. Em— ‘What would Henry Watterson do if it should come to & contest for the presi- dency between Roosevelt and Cleveland as the standard bearers of their respec- tive parties? L) If rallroad trafic and railroad earn- ings are keeping up without interrup- tion what call is there for the railroads to reduce the service and cut off em- ployes? Here's a chance for an ex- planation. Smp—— Henry Watterson is still chasing the devil that inhabits the soclety set in New York and Newport and in the in- terval giving thanks to heaven that Le did not happen to break into the com- pany of such a disreputadle bunch, e—— If all the democrats vote for Dickin- son and Read, and several hundred re- publicans should also vote for Dickin- son and Read, what chances will thero be for the election of Ferguson and Page, the two democrats on the patched qQuilt nonpartisan ticket? ———————— One of the twentleth century features will be the establishment of political portrait galleries In every voting pre- cinct In order to acquaint the people with the men who are willing to secve them without putting them to the trou- ble of a personal canvass. The president of the Burlington is sald to have gone to St. Paul to confer with the president of the Chicago Great Western concerning the cut in Omaba grain rates. What Mr. Harris will say to Mr. Stickney and what Mr. Stickney will say to Mr. Harris will probably not be divulged for a few days. EE——— local popocratic organ is not so erazy for the immediate acquisition of the water works at whatever cost. Had the management of the city's affairs gone into the hands of the democrats a8 a result of last spring’s cliy election it would have been yelping about pro- crastination. Nebraska popullsts bave another il- lustration of the beauties of fusion in the utter ueglect by the democratie organs and campaigners of the two fusion candidates for university regents. It so happens that the regency nowminees were furnished out of the popullst corner of the camp, while the demo- erats took the first place on the ticket. Result—no fight being waged on the fusion side for anyone but the head of the state ticket. Out of the $3,000 dollar allowance for A county fair exhibit $1,000 was' paid for 430 feet of exhibition space in the Ak-Sar-Ben carnivil grounds at an ap- preclably lower rate than was charged other exhibitors. What became of the other $2,000 has not transpired, inas- much the county board voted the whole appropriation in a lump and left the farmers who form the taxpayers of Douglas county to make thelr own .dis- ‘fillng & pame or a GUOD ADVIUE TU BANKERS. The bankers of the eountry should glve heed to the suggestions and advice of the comptroller of the currency in his address before the ‘American Bankers' assoclation. No owme has a better op portunity than he to know of banking conditions and his utterances In rela- tion to this are to be regarded as of the highest authority. Mr. Ridgely said it has been evident to any careful observer for more than a year past that bank loans have been expanding too fast The power to loan still exists, The money 1% stifl in the banks for reserves and there is as much money as ever in circulation outside of the banks and the treasury, It is not now, so much the question of power as the disposition or willingness to loan, - As_to how far the country will go in.the tendency to contract loans is a matter for the bank- ers mainly to decide. “What is needed now is business sensc and good judgment, not legislation,” said the comptroller. *““We need all the reserve money we can get, but legisla- tion will not produce it.” He urged that there is no occasion to be mervous or hysterical about the financlal or busi- ness situation, that if we have been too hopeful we must not all at bnce become too pessimistic. “Let each bank stand by its customers and stand by the country, as it deserves. It never was in better condition when facing any such situation.” Mr. Ridgely properly recognizes the vast power which the banks exert and he simply reminds those who control this power of the duty and necessity of applying to its use business sense and good judgment. He tells them that they should stand by their customers and by the country. It 18 sound counsel and timely, A judi- cious degree of caution and conserva- tism is always to be desired, but there 18 In existing conditions nothing to war- rant fear and pessimism. No one who will give intelligent consideration to the facts which the statistics of busi- ness present can have any doubt that the country Is still prosperous or fail to be convinced that the general condi- tions are favorable to the continuance of prosperity. As Comptroller Ridgely sald, it is no sudden effervescense or bibble of speculation, but the natural, inevitable result of potent existing and continuing forces. It is not going to disappear or vanish in a day because of a slump In stocks or the collapse of a few underwriting syndicates. “It may be necessary to pause a little to get our breath after the pace we have gone, but if there is any serious check it will only be because we have lost our nerve and cournge.” —— STUDYING MILITARY CONDITIONS. It is stated that the general staff of the army will send agents to several countries of South America to study military conditions, a preparation for war in that part of the world in which the United States might be involved. It appears that already military officers have been sent to foreign parts and that these have been busy getting together all the information avalilable that would be useful to our army. According to a Washington report, behind the activity of the general staff in studying military matters in South America is understood to be a reason more immediate than the mere opinion that the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine will be settled by force of arms in that continent. It is sald to bave come to the knowledge of the Washington authorities that mili- tary agents of European countries are busily engaged in collecting information to the character of the roads, the country generally, the food supply and other things which it is important for a military commander to know in re- gard to his prospective field of hostile operations, 0 Doubtless this is a work quite within the scope of the duties of the general staff of the army. The information ob- tained may never be of any actual value, for it 18 hardly possible that we shall ever have to defend the Monroe doctrine by a military force in any Bouth American country, but no harm can come from sending our wilitary agents, providing care is taken not to arouse suspicion and distrust of our in- tentions on the part of the people of the southern countries. There is obyl- ously ‘some danger of doing this, since there is a considerable feeling in some of those countries that the professed friendship of the United States is not altogether sincere. Such a result, by no means improbable, would certainly be unfortunate. THE FORT RILEY MANEUVERS. The military maneuvers at Fort Riley will be concluded towmorrow and accord- ing to accounts they are the most suc- cessful yet held. The regular troops participating bave of course acquitted themselves finely. That was expected. But the National Guards have also made a most creditable record, show- ing themselves t0 be possessed of that military instinet which is markedly characteristic of American soldiers. The Nebraska and Iowa regiments have recelved warm commendation for thelr general bearing and discipline, ‘which compared very favorably with that of the regulars, That these maneuvers will have a g00d effect upon the men composing the National Guard is not to be doubted. They are iuspiriting, they teach discl- pline and they tend to promote goldierly qualities and patriotic feeling. . Every wman engaged in them has obtaloed use- ful instruction as a soldier and this will certainly not make him a less worthy citizen. The plan of Deving these annual maneuvers and associating regular troops with the National Guard will, there is every reason to. believe. be fully justified by results. It un- doubtedly must prove very beneficial to the citizen soldiery. When the law was attacked that abolished the pMice of clerk of the dis- trict court as an unlimited fee office. THE OMAHA DAILY and comfort to the attempt to secure a court decision adverse to its constitu- tionality and submitted to the inevitable only when he had to. He id this despite his promises prior to his elec- tion to be content with the salary fixed by law. People who have no use for salary grabbers should remember this, DANGERS OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. At the convention of the American Gas Light association beld in Detroit a few days ago Henry L. Doherty of New York, general manager of the American Lighting and Traction com- pany, strongly opposed municipal own- ership of public utilities. Mr. Doherty declared that the threat of municipal ownership was a menace to private un- dertakings and had already deprived many small communities in this country of the benefits of gas and electric plants. Mr. Doherty's trump card against municipal ownership was that mismanagement was almost inevitable in municipal plants because the best class of men could not be secured to take positions dependent upon the re- sult of elections after tenure. This old bugbear may terrorize chil- dren, but will scarcely frighten grown people. The great majority of Amer- ican cities own and operate their water works, and hundreds of cities, towns and villages in America own and operate electric light plants and some their gas works. While there doubtless has been occasional mismanagement and some leaks in the operation of these municipal plants, the service rendered to the pubile has in nearly every in- stance been more efficient and cheaper than the service rendered by franchised corporations. This is perfectly natural. Private corporations do not establish and op- erate public utility plants for (heir health but for profit. If these public utility corporations were content with a reasonable profit on their actual in- vestment, the demand for public owner- ship would not touch the popular chord, but most of the public utility corpora- tions have been organized as stock job- bing concerns and capitalized on enor- mous prospective profits. Frequently the plants are bonded for double or treble the capital invested and millions wpon millions of stocks are issued on top of these bonds. To pay the interest on the bonds and dividends on millions of pure water excessive rates are ex- acted from the publfc and from private consumers, Under municipal owner- ship the service charge would be based on interest npon the actual investment and cost of maintenance and operation. Another phase of private ownership is the systematic pernicious tampering with the municipal pfficers and es- pecially with city councils and boards of public works, which amounts to wholesale bribery and does more to un- dermine and corrupt municipal govern- ment than all other agencies combined. As against this evil the menace of in- competency and inefficiency in the man- agement of municipal lighting plants is no offset. 'As a matter of fact, the very best men are willing to enter the service of municipal corporations as readily as, they are private corpora- tions, and there is no more danger of their lofing their jobs by changes In municipal government than there is by changes in the directory of a corpora- tion. So far as the taxpayers and consum- ers are concerned they have no more to fear from the men employed in the public utility service than they have from the men employed in the corpora- tion service. Instead of reinforcing the so-called municipal machine, the tendency of an increased force on the municipal payroll would be to meutral- ize and minimize political activity by the popular demand for civil service rules and the enforcement of the merit system. At any rate, that has been the effect of increased activity in the postal service. Twenty-five years ago, when there were less than 5,000 letter car- riers and railway mail clerks employed in the postal service, they were treated as political assets of congressmen and senators. The postoffice was political headquarters in every city, and post- masters, clerks and letter carriers were the leading factors in political primaries and conventions, but now when we have more than 35,000 city and rural delivery letter carriers and railway pos- tal clerks organized on civil. service lines the influence of the postoffice In Inrge cities upon local, state or national politics is infinitesimal. Rallway maijl clerks, letter carriers and clerks in the postoffices can no longer be conscripted or dragooned Into the political army and are absolutely free to vote ase they please, > The trend of the times is toward the neutralization of civil service employes in politics and this tendency will grow from year to year as the standard of municipal employment is elevated by the introduction of professional men whose tenure in office must be guaran- teed by laws and ordinances for the protection of the taxpayers. There is nothing smail about St Louis. The St. Louls exposition will not only be the biggest show that has ever been seen on earth, but the St Louisians also want to boast that they have successfully coaxed congress to give them leave to scoop more dollars out of the national treasury than any other interstate or international expo- sition ever has dreamed of getting. Not coutent with the draft of $5.000,000 that Uncle Sam has already honored, they now propose to make him cough up several hundred thousand wore for sideshows and incidentals. For sublime audacity Chicago is not in it with St Louis. e Awmong the twelve states traversed by the Illinois Central railroad system 2,218 stockholders own $14,434,300 of stock at par value, 1,324 of these own- ing $11,871,000 in stock reside im T~ nols, 308 owning $393,200 reside in Towa, and only fourteen owning $35,600 BEE: MONDAY, live In Nebraska—which goes to show that the average Nebraskan bas a great deal more interest in live stock than in railroad stocl Semi-occasionally the railroad mag nates by a slip of the tongue give the people an insight into their methods of benevolent assimilation. President J. J. Hill, for example, stated among other things at the irrigation congress held at Bismarck last week that five railroads, his own among the number, had subscribed $25,000 a year to pay for a campalign of education on the sub- Ject of irrigation and started it all over the country. The subsldized develop- ment of the irrigation sentiment was brought to a fruition last year on the floor of congress after a judicious ex- penditure of $125,000. The entirely dis- Interested activity of Mr. Maxwell on behalf of irrigation is now fully, if not satisfactorily, explained. It will be remembered that a year or two ago Josiah Flynt, the professional author-tramp, was imported to tell us what a wicked city Omaha is—the ob- Jective point being to produce some effect on the then pending election. Now a preacher-evangelist is imported to do the same thing just™in front of another election. Same old game. ‘Washington Post. Democrats who are poking fun at the present efforts to capture the delegates from the territories should remember that the Hawallan delegate had the deciding vote on the democratic platform of 1900, Grinds Either Way. Philadelphla Record. When the miners reduced the supply of coal the price, of course, went up; but now the operators are going to reduce the sup- ply so that the price shall not go down. The law of supply and demand catches the consumer both ways. Justice Tempered with Merey. Baltimore American. President Roosevelt has certainly been almost more than just In the cases of the West Virginia miners who killed the United States deputy marshal by commuting the death sentences imposed upon them. How- ever, it has ever been the tendency of great presidents to let justice lean toward mercy. Good Policy to Follow. Minneapolis Journal. Mr. Elliott, the new president of the Northern Pacific, came up from the ranks on merit. He pursued the policy of always doing just a little more than he was ac- tually required to do and of doing it well. No boy who adopts that policy wiil have to hunt for a job; the jobs will always be hunting him. Yielding to Temptation. New York Tribune. One of the saddest instances of yielding to temptation known for many a day is the tall of a superintendent of the forelgn’ mail branch of the posteffice. He had been in the service for almost thirty years and had worked his way up to an important and re- sponsible position. He had mlore than a hundred men under him and was not only popular with them, but he enjoyed the con- fidence of those above him. After so ex- tended a term of loyal and valuable labors he was detected in'dtealing money from let- ters. He' was trustéd so thoreughly that the evidence of his gulit amazed everybody who knew him, . . — IMPROVED DIVORCE LAW. Impetuous Separationists Recelve a Cheek in California. Chicago Chronicle, The supreme court of California recently upheld the Mellick divorce law, which pro- vides that final judgment shall not be en- tered within & year. The effect of the law. will be deterrent upon mpetuosity seeking conjugal release for {nsufficient cause. It will chill the base motive to cast away wife or husband In order to take up at once with another. Any law which discourages resort to the tribunal which so frequently stigmatizes the innocent and rewards the gullty and whose decrees so frequently Infringe the rights of childhood is to be commended. Guilty collusion will encounter a vigorous obstruction in the Mellick law. * Comprehensive reform or even material mitigation of the divoree vice in the United States cannot be expected until the states shall have adopted a uniform statute,for- bldding remarriage of the gullty party while the innocent party lives, Adoption of such a statute may reasonably be hoped for after a more general and more honest discussion of the miseries and shame that dissolution of the marriage bond has al- ready so widely distributed in the United States. The more radical remedy, absolute pro- hibition of remarritge of divorced persons, cannot be expected while respect for the religious nature of the marriage boad fs felt by so small a fraction of the present generation. The churches can contribute toward maintenance of the trué ldeal of marriage, Unfortunately, as the statistics show, an effectual discipline which church member- ship ought to fmpose is now limited within a continually narrowing area. Conservative public opinion can assist in the preservation of the American home by extending the partial remedy of the Mellick law to the statute books of other states. MAKES A SOBER SOLDIER, Record of “Our Littie Brown Brother” in the Army. Philadelphia Ledger. Our little brown brother, if he does not make & remarkably stalwart soldier, makes a sober one. This we gather from the an- nual report of the surgeon general of the army. The enrollment of about 5,000 native Filipino scouts has added “a new racial element” to the army, and the surgeon general is interested In the comparative effect of disease upon them and upon our white and colored troops. For the whole army, at home and abroad, during the past year the white troops had an “ad- mission rate"—that is, the rate of entries upon the sick list—of 170635 a thousand, the colored troops 159774 and the Malay scouts 1707. In the death rate, however, the variation is much greater. It Is but 14.40 per 1,000 among the white troops, 34.11 among the negroes and .04 among the Malays. The white troops evidently stand the rigors of the service much better than the others. On the other hand, while white soldiers were admitted to the sick report on account of what the surgeon general calls “misconduct in the use of alcohol" at the rate of 2.7 per 1,000 and the colored troops at the rate of 1170, the Malay scouts show the extremely small admission rate of 0.62. That out of 5,000 men only three were treated for alcobolism during the year is certalnly a very striking evidence that drunkenness is not among the Fili- pino's vices Drunkenness and the diseases commonly associated with It are every- where the %rmy's bane, and the sungeon general thinks it impossible not to sttribute & large part of thelr recent incresse o the loss of the army canteel.. 5 OCTOBER 26, 1903, AN EMPIRE IN THE BUILDING. Rapld Development of Alaska and the Canadian Northwest. Alaska being a topic of the hour, there is timely interest in the story told by Willlam R. Stewart in World's Work of its wonder- fully rapld development. Mr. Stewart shows that the vast stretch of the far northwest, Canadian as well as American, 1s repeating the wonder story of Calfor- nia's magical growth. WIthin a year or two Alaska will be traversed by raflroads almost from end to end. Nome, the west- ern terminus of the rallroad system of northwestern Alaskn. Is already a clity of 2,000 population. The railroad tracks that run to Nome are furthest north of all the world; they are almost within the arctic circle. Nome has good hotels, daily papers, banks, electric lights, telegraphs and tele- phones—in short, a complete outfit of civill. zation. It is connected by cable with St Michael's and by telegraph with Dawson and Skagway. N ‘When the raliroads now building and pro- jected are completed it will only need a short morthern spur from Russia’s great Siberian railroad to give all-rail communica- tion from New York to Paris. Meantime Dawson is the city to which all railroad bullding leads. Dawson has 1,200 population, and its municipal equipment Includes all modern improvements. Its assessment for taxation is over §11,000,000. It s now installing a $5,000,00 water supply plant. The Yukon river is open to navigation from May to October, and forty stern-wheel steamboats ply between Dawson ahd St. Michael's, covering the 1,600 ‘miles in about ten days. Primariily the raliroads so far have been bullt to tap the enormous mineral wealth of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. But, contrary to old notions, there is immense agricultural and forest wealth to be de- veloped in the Hudson bay, North Sas- katchewan and Peace river districts Nearly 4,000 miles north of the boundary between Alaska and the Canadian north- west, in the valley of the Peace river, wheat, barley and oats are grown in quan- tities limited only by the number of farm- ers, The most northerly roller-process flour mill on the continent has just been bullt at Vermilioh. The wheat which %ok the first prize at the Centennial exhibition of 1876 at Philadelphla came from the Peace river country, which s estimated to con- tain more than 15,000,000 acres of good grain-growing sofl. ' The postal service of this empire in em- bryo is a wonder. Mall steamers leave the Pacific coast dally, bringing bags from Sitka, Skagway, Nome and other points by all manner of means—wagons, dog sleds, etc. Russian reindeer carry the sacks over frozen lakes and snow-covered hills with remarkable rapidity. The highest sal- arled postal officlal in the world serves in Alaska. He Is paid $25,000 a year for carry- ing the mail fortnightly to Fort Yukon, providing his own dogs and sieds for the purpose, Alaska has now upward of 100 postoffices and mails are collected and de- livered reguiarly beyond the arctic circle. The fisheries of Alaska are rich beyond calculation. Its cod banks are belleved to equal in wealth those of Newfoundland. More than half of our entire salmon product is Alaskan, and last year it was worth $7,000,00—exactly what we pald Russia for the whole territory. The winters of Alaska are less rigorous than those of Wyoming or Montana, and horses and cattle are worked there without r of being frozen. The cold is intense, but there are no storms, Except on the coast of Behring sea all the hardy vegeta- bles are grown with marked success throughout Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, south of the arctic circle. As a measure of Alaska's growth it s noted that her total foreign trade, all she bought and all she sold, in 1892 was less than $20,000 In value, while for the fiscal year ended June 30 last it reached a total of $36,000,000. | Americans and British settlers are push- ing steadily north into this great territgry in about equal numbers, and Mr. Stewart says that “the entire Canadian northwest is already more American than British in its administrative system.” President Roosevelt, speaking at Seattle in May last, predicted that men now living “would see Alaska one of the greatest and most populous states of the entire union.” It may be that it will become too great and populous for one state, or even for two. Its area is larger than that of eighteen of the present states of the union, including New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indiana, Loulsiana and Maine. To use another com- parison, Alaska ncludes more territory than the British isles, ¥France, Germany, Portugal and Belglum all put together. The future of such an imperial domain must be great indeed! P FIGHTING RATE DUCTION. Character of the Rallroad Arg ment Before the Missouri Comm| o Kansas City Times. In their effort to prevent a reduction of freight rates by the State Board of Rail- way and Warehouse Commissioners, the rafiroad officlals at the present meeting in this city have resorted to extreme mea: ures, but have shown the weakness of thelr position by the very methods employed to sustain it. The chlef argument advanced thus far against the proposed reduction of rates in Missouri is that it might necessi- tate retrenchment, including a reduction of wages' paid ‘o the employes. The of- ficlals have not made this argument in so many words. They have not spoken on the point directly. They have chosen an indi- rect course designed to be very “foxy." They have had some of their employ representing several organizations of rail- road men present & petition to the board asking that rates be not reduced lest lower wages might follow. The petition recites that the operation of railroads ip Missourl is more expensive than in lowa or Ili- nois. There is not much to this claim, but if there is anytning to it, the differences between operating expenses are but a small item as compared with the difference In rates. But the rallroad men are not in a posi- tion to argue that they cannot afford to make the proposed rates. They cannot logically, even, hold out the idea, directly or indirectly, that their employes must suffer a reduction In wages If the rates are cut. The shippers admit that before the enactment of the Elkins anti-rebite law there were given rebates amounting to about 40 per cent of the published tariffs. This rebate, presumably, was enjoyed by all who shipped in considerable quantities. The rallroads made money. They were sat- jsfled and the wages of the employes were not lowered. Now the proposed re- duction by the state board is only about & per cent of the pubilshed tariffs. It s true that it would apply to all shipments, for one object of the Elkins law Is to show no favors to the heaviest shippers, who In nearly all cases, are better able to pay the regular rates than are the smaller ones. This reduction of 30 per cent on all freight would probably amount to about the same In e aggregate as the rebate of 4 per cent o the larger shippers in times past. It ls, therefore, mere rubbish to say that the proposed reduction would OUTSIDE VIEW OF LOCAL POLITICS. Nortolk News: The efforts of the World- Herald to show that there Is a compact between Rosewater and the candidate for Judicial honors on the republican ticket Teads backwards to many readers, who see In it evidence of jealousy that there is not such a compact with Editor Hitchcock Lyons Sun: The people of Burt county have had the pleasure during the last week of greeting five of the republican candidates for the district bench of this | distriot, vis: Messrs. A. C. Troup, W. G. Seurs, W. A. Redick, A. L. Sutton and I F. Baxter. All these men are well quali- fled, as are also Judges Day and Estelle, for the offices to which they have been nominated. They are men of experience, men of good judgment and men of Integ- rity. The full ticket should and doubtless | wiil be elected, Kearney Hub: Edward Rosewater has again proven the truth of the saying that he who laughs last laughs best. In th recent primary contests the anti-Rose- waterites scored very handsomely, but on the finlsh the Rosewater element secured control of the county central committes, which Is pretty much the whole thing and insures his control of the party machinery in Douglas county next year as well. It Is a good thing for the party in Douglas county that it is o, and the united front already being presented bears out this opinion. Fillmore Chronicle: Douglas county has glven its assurance to Roosevelt next year In the most substantial way—that is, by every leader of every faction uniting for & splendid victory for the whole state and county ticket this fall. When men like Webster and Green, Rosewater and Gur- ley, Moores and Van Dusen, speak elo- quently for the republican ticket from the same rostrum, it means that a strong pace Is set for republicanism throughout the state. It means that they all ses that Roosevelt will be triumphant and the great | west will have a large part In making him 8o, and that the man or faction that ulks In the tent this year will not be heard In council next year, Douglas county made the test. The result of pri- | mary and convention is sufficlent warrant for republican support, and that is good doctrine in Fillmore county, where every candidate is a clean man and was nom- inated in a fair convention struggle. It is certainly gratifylng to be generally as- sured that Fillmore leaders are not to be outdone by those of Dougl: Geneva Signal: A few weeks ago a large harmony meeting was held in Omaha at | which were gathered the representatives | of the various factions of the republican party in Douglas county. This was before the county convention. It was freely pre- dlcted that the harmony would not last beyond the county convention. Although some of the candidates mominated were personally objectionable to the leaders of the factions, they came together Monday night at Washington hall before an enor- mous crowd and there, with Mayor Moores presiding, John L. Webster, Edward Rose- water, C. J. Greene, A. W. Jefferls, H. C. Brome and J. H. Van Dusen endorsed the whole ticket. It looks now as if the Douglas county republican majority would | bo 3,000. This-general gotting together of republicans In every county in the state looks Ike 2,00 for Barnes. The desire to line up for Roosevelt next year, en- couraged by known accessions in every pre- cinct to the republican ranks, is inspiring the republican candidates and committees with the full assurance of vietory, and that for the whole ticket. — A MYSTERIOUS PROCEEDING. William Jemnings Bryan a: nett Bequests. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Willlam J. Bryan places himself in a rather undignified position by his testi- mony in the Bennett will contest. In his effort to secure an indirect and doubtful' bequest of $50.000 he frankly admits having been a pensioner for some years on the bounty of a weak-minded admirer. The curious testament provision made by Mr. Philo 8. Bennett of New Haven needed the testimony of Mr. Bryan to make it even partly Intelligitle. No one could make out from the early dispatches in re- lation to the will whether the money was a gift to Bryan or & vague and irresponsible educational trust, to be disposed of in his own way and without accounting to any one. From Mr. Bryan's testimony it appears that Mr. Bennett desired to give him $50,000 in his will, as he had previously given him considerable sums. Mr. Bryan modestly the money be given him ribute for educational pur- poses, and that the gift be embodled in a request to Mrs. Bennett, as the executor and chief heir, rather than In a formal clause of the will. If Mrs. Bennett complied with the re- quests, the money would come to him without any accountability to the probdate court for his disposal of it. It is hard to understand just what the will provides from the meagre dispatches; but Mr. Bryan is claiming the $0,000 on the strength of a letter from Bennett, which he says is | & copy of a letter to Mrs. Bennett, which the executors refused to make public. It is an amazing tangle, on which a little light is thrown by Mr. Brysn's remark that he would not allow his wife and chil- dren to recelve a cent of money unless Mrs. Bennett were willing. What have his wife and children to do with an educa- tional trust, anyway? On Bryan's side! there seems to be an effort to get the! money Into his own hands, which the executors are resisting, elther on behalf of Mrs. Bennett or of the educational trust More light on the singular affair may re- Meve Mr. Bryan of the suspicion of grasp- the Ben- Waltham Ing meanness of spirit revealed by his own testimony, e e PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, That sausage should figure In the menu of golfers is a delicate tribute to autumn- tinted links, One thousand people are killed each year in the crowded streets of New York. The strenuous pace is an unrivaled cemetery promoter. . Dealers in cork legs and arms have de- cided to boost the price. Vieflms of the automobile will hardly consider this a corking proposition. ‘When the water was thoroughly squeezed out of the Salt trust in San Francisco the residue had shrunk from $12,00,000 to $37,- 000. Bcarcely enough Is left to give each sucker a pinch. John D. 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