Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1903, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order yable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 3-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounts. l?mnl checks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not Acoe THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: rgo B. Tuschiick, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, being duly 8 Says that the wotual Aumber of full gomplete Dal ing, i1 nted during ‘was as fol- 28,030 .28,910 28,870 28,860 46,445 8,880 L.a8,8% EUENERPBREESEENSE Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales.. Net average sales # 28,424 BORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of Mg;lmbcl’. A M. B, HUNGATE. . 1908 (Beal)) Notary Putlic. — e Look out for a white frost the flemocratic ticket next Tuesday. on Epe——— City Clerk Elbourn’s Chinese puzzle— Bhould it be spejled “Mac" or “Me." The fusion reform organ reminds us of the man who tried to brace up his cour- age by singing while passing through the graveyard. . E——— 1t 18 to be feared that the complications arising in the Bennett will matter may interfere seriously with Colonel Bryan's plans for his European trip. E—— Nebraska republicans must not beguile themselves with overconfidence because of the promising prospects, state and local. Eternal vigilance is the price of victory. ETm———— For a man who is so busy keeping the schools out of politics Becretary Burgess is evinelng a midrvelous amount of In- terest in theelection of school board members. With the price of ofl boosted up an- other notch, the University of Chicago ought to be ready. to announce another handsome contribution to its endowment from Mr. Rockefeller. E—— Japun insists that it wants peace and Russia makes the same declaration. Under the clrcumstances we cannot see how they can he forced to fight one an- other against thelr will. The courts have only begun to in- terpret the new rovenue law. That measure will not recognize its own re- flection in the mirror when the in- terpreters get through with it. EEn———— The city or county officlal yithin the Jurisdiction of the courts of this dis*rict who 18 not enjoined from doing some- thing or from refraining from dolng something has a right to feel ‘slighted. am——————— Joseph Chamberlain says Great Britain must wake up and meet the new indus- trial conditions. If anyone clse had inti- mated that Great Britain had been asleep it would have been regarded as a na- tional affront. Ems———— The progress of the sausage mukers' etrike In Chicago is not chronicled in the press in sufficient detall to satisfy the public. The Importance of this strike to the patrons of the free lunch coupters must not be underestinated. Colonel Bryan has not only refrained from entertaining the voters of Ne- braska this year with his oratory, but has also spared them even an add advising them what to do. Such neglect will bardly be condoned, wuch gotten. less for- The two things no man can escape are death and taxes. In Nebraska the new county assessors about to be elected will be responsible for the equitable distribu- tion of the taxes. See to it that honest, courageous and competent county as- cossors are chosen. — The mania for marriage among our United States senators seems to be be coming infectious, Old Santa ess | Infer that in this he represents the pre- Claus BUSINESS FOUNDATIONS STRONG. One of the leading financial journals says in its latest issue that while con- ditions superficially are not as attractive as they were a year ago the foundations of ‘business are strong and solid. It de- clares that they are stronger today, in fact, than six months ago, for the sim- ple reason that the errors elsewhere have been discovered and the work of repalr is going on. “We may be at the end of the ‘boom’ period, but one good wheat and corn crop is worth more than all the actual money that has been lost | In Wall street in two years. Slumps such as the recent one do not revive farm | mortgages, as a rule, nor do they throw good raflroads into bankruptey.” This is the rational view to take of the situation and we think it is the one that now very generally prevails. The con- ditions in Wall street quite naturally created a feellng of distrust, but this is passing away and there I8 now a very ! general confidence in the continunance of prosperity, though in somewhat dimin- ished measure. What has come about is a greafer degree of conservatism in financial and business affairs and this is well. But there is no good reason for any apprehension regarding the imme- dinte future so far as the legitimate country are concerned. RACSE ISSUR IN MARYLAND. The democrats of Maryland are mak- ing their campalgn almost wholly on { the race question. «Notwithstanding the | fact that in that state the colored race is In a small minority of the whole popu- lation, the democrats are urging that { there is danger of negro dowmination, their candidate for governor declaring that “this election is a contest for the supremacy of the white race in Mary- land.” A few days ago Senator Gorman made a speech in which he bitterly at- tacked President Roosevelt, whom he charged with forcing the race issue to the front, the particular offense of the president Dbeing the entertainpment of Booker T. Washington. The spirit that animates the deniocrats of the south is shown in this declara- tion of the Maryland senator, who hopes to be the democratic candidate for presi- dent: “With an impetuosity hardly worthy of a youth in a small community, the president suddenly biought to the front this race question which the people were settling quietly and orderly, by in- viting Booker Washington to dine with him in the White House. This act was interpreted by the whole colored race as meaning not only political, but soclal, equality of the two races.” Of course no such interpretation was given the president’s act by an intelligent colored tman and there are millions of the race who never even heard of the incident. But southern democratic hostility to the negro, with which northern democrats are largely in sympathy, does not balk at any assumption which appeals to race prejudice for partisan ends. The democrats of Maryland may be successful in the election. Under the law of their enactment fully 10,000 bal- lots cast by the colored voters were thrown out in 1901 and haying the elec- tion machinery in their hands they can throw out this year as many as they deem necessary. But Mr. Gorman has {not Improved his chances for the presi- dency by his attitude on the race issue. No man whd entertains such views can ever be elected chief executive of this republic, Sm—e— ENGLISH UNEASY OVER CANADA. The London correspondents all report much uneasiness in England over Can- adlan resentment regarding the Alaska boundary award. Extracts from some of the leading papers show -that such ' 18 the cyse and that there exists a good | {deal of sincere apprehension that the decision in favor of the American con- tention, except in one comparatively unimportant respect, may have a serlous effect upon' Canadian loyalty and espe- peclally upon imperial sentiment in the Dominlon, which just now a conslder- able body of Englishmen are most anx- fous to strengthen. There I8 certainly good ground - for this British uneasiness in the utterances of prominent. men in Canada, who al- most without exception have denounced the boundary award. The feeling is particularly strong, it naturally would be, in British Columbia, but it is very general and earnest. Premier Laurier, in a speech at Ottawa a few days ago, said that in his own opinion Capada had a good case, though there were no doubt arguments on the other side. It was a matter of regret to him that Canada had not treaty-making powers, implying that thelr possession would have insured a different result |in the boundary issue. It is safe to { dominant sentiment of the country. Other public men and the press quitg generally have expressed the sharpest dlssatisfaction and there bhas been Aroused a feeling favorable to Canadian independence that may well excite some anxiety in England. Yet this burst of indignation and re- sentment may not be long-lived. Per- haps the sober second thought will con- | vince the Canadians that by no possibil- | ity have they anything to galn by such an attitude, but rather that the effect - {of maintaining it might work to their injury. While it is true that the bound- Stewart of Nevada having just followed l”’ decision is not final, it is equally in the footsteps of Semators Platt and will Depew of New York. Nebraska bave to be on guard, as both its sena’ tors are widowers and eligible. Having put its foot in it with its fool talk about Judge Sullivan’s bLible-in-the- public-schools decision, the World. Herald is trying to throw the blame for It will probably bLiame The Bee, too, for forcing it to re- print the vilification clirculars tssued In its folly onto The Bee. certain that the United States will under Do circumstances recede in the least .| from its contention. That is unalterably established and Canadian protest is fu. ) concerned, to have the treaty- . | power or national independence. Man- Ifestly it is far better for that country THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, OOTOBER 28, 1903. take such a course. It is easy to under- stand English uneasiness respecting the situation, but there is reason to be- Neve that the cause for apprehension will prove to be less serious than now appears, A SELF-CUNDEMNING CAMPAIGN. The alm and object of the campaign made this fall by the democrats in Omaha and Douglas county and the sole end toward recting their efforts is not to wage an aggressive fight for the candidates on and dissension among republicans upou whom thelr opponents depend for suc- cess. they have so far signally failed in ac complishing their purpose. But this will only lead them to redouble their fforts so that from now on during the remaining time up to election we may expect all sorts of fakes and canards in the democratic organs about pretended trouble brewing in the republican camp. As a matter of fact, nothing so em- phagizes the weakness of the demo- cratic position as the method of cam- puigning the democrats have adopted. Kveryone realizes that this county has a safe normal’republican majority. If £u1]" and | Anancial and commereial Interests of the | the champlons of the democratic office seekers had any valid arguments to prove that their favorites were supe- rior in ability, experience or Integrity to thelr republican opponents they might try to persuade republicans with independent proclivities to come to the rescue of their foredoomed ticket, but not a word has been presented that would convince any intelligent person believing in republican prineiples that the democratic candidates have any claim to public support to which he should respond with his vote. On the contrary, there is no good reason why any of the county offices now held by democrats would not be equally as ably, economically and honestly administered f not more so, by the republican candi- dates seeking election. 1t is not neces- sarlly an arraignment of the men on the democratic ticket to say that they are inferior on the whole, and in no case superior, to thelr respective republican opponents, Under these conditions republican suc- cess in Douglas county should and will be assured by majorities that will do credit to the party and its management. — The stay of execution accorded that great railroad detective, Fred M. Hans, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, is doubtless his right, but the plea put forward by his attor- neys that he is being railroaded to the penitentiary is enough to make a horse laugh. The murder for which Hans was convicted took place over three years ago. Hans' occupation since that time has been railroading faked-up train robberies to give himself the prestige of frustrating the vobbers. If Hans is really guilty of the crime of which he has been convicted as a jury in Brown county declares, instead of being a vie- tim of rallroading to'the penitentiar$, dilatory justice has been lame and halt as well ag blind in reaching his case, The United States grand jury out in Oregon that has just brought-in a batch of indictments against parties implicated in puhlic land swindles must be of a dif- ferent makeup from the United States grand jury in Nebraska, which carefully closed its eyes and ears to all the evi- dence brought before it proving public land swindles in this state. If we are to have a thorough investigation of crooked deals perpetrated under the land office the Inquisitors should not ‘confine themselves to Oregon. * For the first time the law passed by the last legislature abolishing the com- missioner district as the basis of election of county board members will be oper- ative in this county. Candidates for county commissioner will therefore be voted for in every voting precinct in the county. The republican candidate, M. J. Kennard, Is entitled to every republican vote and with them his success is assured. Iailroad statisticlans will have no trouble in proving that ownership of the railroads of the country is shared by over a million people who have invested money in rallroad stocks. When it comes to the question of controlling the rail- roads of the country, however, the strings can all be traced into the hands of a dozen multimillionaires with of- fices near Wall street. The contending parties in the mine controversy at Butte, Mont., appear de- termined each to make offers of settle- ment that the other will refuse to ac- ecpt. The chances are it will take a third party to formulate the compromise on which they can eventually get to- gulhel;. No one ever heard of a republican being appolnted to fill a vacancy on the bench during the six years that we had fusion executives at the head of state government. Fusion nonpartisanship never went that far. Force of Habit, Chicago Tribune. Democratic spellbinders in Iowa are about as successful as usual in pumping en- asm Into the democratic voters of that state this year. Thelr Tk Ways. Denver Post. The Omaha Bee thinks King Edward may have to invite some American states- men out of & job to cross the Atlantic and tile. It would be no advantage, then, to |take places in his cabinet. If his majesty the Deminion, so far as #his matter g |#bould unfortunately secure some of t sort of statesmen we are usipg in this WAKING | greqt and gloriows westland he would soon be out of & jeb Wmself. to remain a loyal part of the 3Ethh '-,nn.mm n.pmn- Bmpire and thus have the assu The committee iy Ceylop that has in- of the imperial protéction. Doubtless | vestigated the private life of the late Gen- the interest of Judge Sullivan against | -"81and would offer no great resistance | eral Hector Macdonald declare under oath his republican opponents after bopmerang effects of that plece of |dePendence, but it would be of very | Tnere was, nowever, fn the opinien of the to | commission, & venomous attack upon the upldity also come Lowe. doubtful wisdom for the Dominlon the | Should Canada decide upon national .| the$ they can discover nofhing that re- flects In the slightest upon his honor. which they have been di-| What dismays them most is that | i | their own tickets, but to create discord | {and beasts multiply under legal protection. general by persons jealous of his great fame and spiteful becauss he had risen to a high place from the ranks of the common soldier. 1f this be the true ver- sion, then the general's suiclde was not confession. Yet, was it the act of a brave Philadelphia Recond Schwab sold his steel works, Mr. which cost him $7,200,000 in money, for $30,000,000 in securities to the Shipbullding truat, nearly all the directors of which e named, and who voted two or three millions of the funds of the trust to increase the plant of the Bethehem Steel company. It cannot be denjed that Mr. Schwab fs a very smart young man, and that Mr. Carnegle was justified in pushing him rapidly to the front An Amiable Enthusinst. Chicago Chronicle. It appears from Mr. Bryan's confession in the Connectlcut court that the late Mr. Bennett not only pald him $300 for drawing the will of which he was to be the chief beneficlary, but that at other times he made the candidate ‘presents” of various sums of money. Mr. Bennett appears to have been an amiable free silver enthusiast who feared that Mr. Bryan might come to want. Evidently he had little knowledge of the money-making possibilities of a ten years' campalgn in the interest of the bonanza mine owners. Mr. Bryan was a richer man than Mr. Benfiett was at the time when the will was drawn by Mr. Bryan. Oarrie Natiom, Hush! St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Carrie Nation is something like a stormy petrel, it we can imagine a short, dumpy, stormy petrel In a black bonnet and with a very round, plump and wrinkled face, which description doesn't sult a petrel by any means, but like a petrel she is found where storms threaten and disports her- selt with apparent delight where human passion rages high. It is no surprise that she s discerned on fleet wing darting across | Prophet Dowle's tempest-tossed audiences uttering shrieks. Such shrieks as the prophet himself must pay attention to and seek to soften by mollifying words. Centers of disturbance gather to them these agitated and restless ones who joy In per- turbing others. Herr Most must be de- terred from betaking his robust person there either by fear or a painfully acquired discretion. Dr. Parkhurst came early and left in anguish. There was some one who | could say meaner things than hé. But Prophet Dowfe will brook no side shows under the main tent. He will not as. semble the multitude that Carrie may ad- dress them, and he has a trained choir of 500 to suppress all interruptions that threaten to divide the public ear. When earnest inquiry raises its voice, seeking, even somewhat menacingly, beseeching it were, explanation of the splendor of his raiment, Elijah touches off his surpliced choir and eager criticlsm is hushed In melodious praise of Jehovah. Aunt Carrle must pay rent for her own evangelical work. TOO MUCH GAME LAW, “Such a Thing Overdoing an Ex- cellent Work.” Chicago Chronicle. The protection of the native game of the country is the duty of the legislatures and of the wardens appointed to see that the, game laws are enforced in the varfous states, but there Is such a thing as over- doing a very excellent work. Readers of the Chronicle have seen re- ports of the city markets telling them that there is a gréat scarcity of game and that the famine will'continue even during the open season for.game under the laws of the states from which.the Chicago game sup- plles have for }¥ been procured. At the restaurants a ‘ghme order will cost three or four times as much as it cost two or three years or even ohe year ago. This Is not due to the general rise in prices, but is owing to the restrictions placed by the operation ef state laws around the destruction of natural game not to be used by the sportsmen for himself or family but for shipment to markets outside of the state. A8 a rule no person s al- lowed to kill more than two deer and but a very small number of birds for shipment beyond state lines. The result of the drastic that while there Is a gam elty markets the game is plentiful in the states where game laws is famine in the becoming too the wild birds Wild game is an expensive luxury, while it is scarce n the markets and difficult to bs procured for. the table. It becomes a nuisance if animals and birds are too abun- dant and invade the farms and destroy vegetation in the nelghborhoods where they have their breeding nesting places. The people in the nelghborhood of the great natural game preserves derive im- mense profits from the visits of sportsmen in pursuit of deer, partridge, pratrie chicken, quail dnd duck in the open season. It is sald that sportsmen leave 5,000,000 a year among the people of Maine who own the immense forests whero deer, elk and caribou are the objects of fleld mports. In northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota the forests and flelds are full of game in the season. The sportsmen whip- ping the trout in the streams, hooking bass in the little lakes, bunting birds in the flelds and deer in the woods leave among the people immense sums of money in pay- ment of their expenses. The game laws should be moderate in their provisions and should be enforced on common principles. They are Intended to preserve the game for future human use, not to make game birds and animals a costly food preduct In cities, but destruc- tive to the growing crops and the harvests in the mewer sections of the country. There should be reason in all things. There is another evil of the later game laws In the several states. They provide for multiudes of game wardens fn each state appointed by mere favor of the re- spective governors, under na check in the exercise of thelr powers, authorized to make searches and seizures without proc- ess and with vast opportunities for vgraft.” Thesc officers, with free transportation and their powers of favoritism or intim- idation, constitute the most useful cam- palgning force which could be organized. The hint as to “graft” is not misplaced. The opportunity is great. As a rule the amateur huntsmen holding licenses to shoot game are men of wealth and liberal- ity and not overstrict, perhaps, in their ideas of dealing with susceptible public ofclals. In Maine a permit to shoot deer is gorgeously printed and illuminated on a crimson textile fabric and cosis 3i6, In- cluding the state fee of $. Sportsmen buy them with alacrity to preserve as souvenire, although no Individual can re- celve more than one permit and is author- zed to kill but two deer for shipment out of the state. It is sald that in the majority of fin- stances an lllegal shipment of game, if seized, will be released by generous treat- ment of the game warden who Interfered with the amusements of the huntsman caught him “with tha goods on him" or contained in an express or frelght package on the cars. Of course, sport is sport, and sportsmen should not exceed their privileges under their licenses. And “graft” is ‘“graft.” and game wardens should not use their offices to blackmall who have violated some occult provision of the game laws, ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Curr the Metropolis. No political thermometer hanging on the outer walls of New York is able to register the temperature of the city campaign. Po- litical barometers are equally “at sea” in forecasting the outcome. Managers, candl- dates, spelibinders and pluggers are work- of Life Ing twenty out of the twenty-four and are anxious to devote the remaining four hours to working the “dear public Betting on the result, which opened at 10 to 7 on Me- Clellan, Is now even money. Both sldes are, as usual, claiming everything. and a calculations show that the contest is ap- parently very closs. The World, which s supporting Mayor Low, conducted a poll of the registered voters of Greater New York last week, and 60.475 citizens declared thelr preferences, about one-tenth of the whole vote to be cast. Commenting on the vote the World savs: “It seems impossible to make a positive forecast of the result of the election at this stage of the work. The race is stlll too close. A cold analysis of the facts indi- cates Low's election, nothwithstanding the slight McClellan lead shown In the actual figures. “This seems to be the closest political battle that has ever been fought In New York. So extraordinary is the contest that a painstaking canvass of ome:tenth of the ‘whole vote, anvass made impartially and safeguarded by every concelvable test, shows the strength of the two candidates for mayor to be almost exactly equal, the difference being only the fractional Me- Clellan plurality of 789. “If one takes Into consideration the pre- ponderance of Tammany districts repre- sented In the count, the election of Low is clearly indicated.” . Last week the rival candidates held forth in the forelgn quarters. Besides having & g00d smattering of English both Messrs. Low and McClellan have a fluent command of German, French and Italian, and they employed these mediums to the best effect. In some cases the candidates addressed as many as five meetings in a single night, making a lightning change of language in the intervals. -Both of them proved effective in thelr German speechés, but when they attempted Italian they discovered that the language learned out of a book was not the kind understood in the Itallan quarter of New York. It Is sald that over forty | distinet dfalects are spokensthere alone, and that the natives of southern Italy cannot make themselves intelligible to those of the north. With such a handicap the candi- dates may be excused for fallure. How- ever, our dear Itallan brother (who is a dago fifty weeks In the year) was not denled the privilege of hearing the virtues of the candidates extolled. A host of small fry orators, with an Indefinite repertory of dlalects, followed In the wake of the stars. A little less than ohe-sixth of a square mile, or over a hundred acres, is the totdl area which te ballots ordéred for the city election would cover if spread out flat to- gother. No fewer than 2,764,800 In number are these ballots—1,228,800 beering the names of the candidates, the same number for voting on the canal question, and 307,200 “samples,” of pink paper, not to be voted, but to explain with. Between $670,000 and $690,000 the election will cost the city, to say nothing of the $130,000 additional that | was spent for the primary election. These sums are, of course, entirely distinct from the cost of the primaries and the election and the preliminaries and afterwork of each to the various political parties and their leaders and candidates. ‘The mayoralty campalgn has almost over- shadowed that for the public approval of the bill passed by the last leglslature, pro- viding for the ‘expenditure of $101,000,000 for the enlargement of the Erie canal. /This proposition s to be voted upon on mnext Tuesday, and both sides are claiming vic- tory. The press in the large cities is strongly advccating the public endorsement of the bill. Both Mr. Low and Mr. Mc- Clellan are committed to the bill, and in- stead of being a party lssue It Is one be- tween the cities and the courltry, as the | rural districts are strenuously opposing the measure. A trade journal that professes to be entirely unblased on the subject recently opinfon of the merits and demerits of the project, and it is considered significant ‘that only two members of this distingulshed Jury favored the bullding of the canal. The ten opponents of the undertaking declare that If the proposition were presented to Wall street or to investors expecting a moderate return income on thelr investment it could not secure the loan of $10,000,000, whereas the state proposes to Invest $101,- 000,000. | How the demon. of demolition is at work in New York is {llustrated by the fact that in an election district which last year held nearly 400 voters there is now just one soli- tary éitizen. Nearly 100 houses have been torn down to make way for a park, and a single shack remains, which houses a lum- ber yard foreman. This district with one voter Is one of the humors of the campalgn. Both the Tammany and the fusion forces clalm it unanimously. For two weeks registration officers went to the registra tion place in the lumber yard office and sat | there solemnly walling for the voters of the dlstrict to come in and register. They knew there was only one in the district, but it required the services of five different inspectors, not to mention the policeman. The polling place had to be kept open four | days for registration. This cost 310 a day for rent. The four Inspectors got §7 a day each, or $28 for the four days, making $112 This, with the cost of stationery and $10 rent, ran up a pretty good total. The en- tire crew, with all official paraphernalla, will be obliged to go through the same performarice on election day, and when the single soversign citizen finally appears and casts his vote the city will have spent a8, Punish the “Con” Men. Indlanapolis Journal. By the way, is there any reason why some of the phases of “high finance” mani- fested in the organization of the shipbuild- ing trust should not come under the ap- plication of the plan old-fashioned law that punishes people for obtaining money under false pretense? Is there 'any difference between a lying prospectus and the ordinary We're a Big Nation Now. Indlanapolis News. Departmental estimates calling for over $100,000,000 for the navy, over $160.000,00) for the Interior department, and nearly $80,00,- | 009 for the army show that we are getting to be even a bigger country than some of us In our carelessness realized. i Proper Glasses cost very little mare money than improper ones. certainly ' much less eye strain. And the satisfaction of KNOWING have the RIGHT ones is more than ;0'0'“‘ the money difference. NUTESON OPTICAL CO., 213 Sewth 16th Street, Paxten Block, asked twelve well-known engineers for an | by General G. D. Joubert, nephew of the kind of misrepresentation? H TALK OF THE STATE PRESS, Osceola Record: If you are satisfled with Roosevelt, why cast your vote for men who are pledged to undo what Roosevelt is doing Insofar as they have the power? MoCook Tribune: Come to think about it, about the easiest way of doing your duty and avolding mistakes is to vote the republican ticket straight—state, judiclal and county. Chadron Journal: In voting the straight republican ticket there is no danger of | casting a ballot for any “yellow dogs." | There fsn’t any running on our ticket, this year, to say the least Blue Springs Sentinel: One of the strongest evidences of prosperity in Ne- braska is the small lists being published of delinquent taxes With the law that was passed by the last legislature allowing the county treasurer the right to sell at pub- lie auction, lands on which taxes have not been paid for a period of five years, these lists will grow still less as the great bulk of lands now advertised belong to this class. Norfolk News: Admirers of the Ne- braska national guard will tip their hats to the boys when they return home from their success In holding thelr own against the attack from the regulars during the ma- neuvers at Fort Riley. A militia regiment that can hold its own in an attack from United States regulars at play may be depended upon to more than hold its own against the soldlers of any country under the sun In the event of a real war game. Wausa Gagette: There is always a de- gres of satisfaction in supporting the re- publican ticket because it s the ticket of the political party that stands for progress and prosperity. But this year there is an additional pleasure. Aside from the matter of political principles we feel a just pride in the personnel of our ticket, a list of able, clean and worthy men—not a poor stick In the lot. If you can sub- scribe to principles of good government and wish to see worthy men in office lend your support to the republican ticket. \ Alblon News: We would Itke to empha~ | sizo the comments of the coroner's jury in the Long case, in reference to young boys being allowed the use of firearmd. A little | sweep of the memory will recall at least | half a dozen fatalities right here in Boone county within a very few years. Hardly a day passes In which the daily pagers do not chronicle a similar tragedy. Phrents of young boys who alfow them to have and to use firearms are criminally careless to say the least. Boys are naturally a little reckless, and they don't understand or appreclate the power and danger of gun- powder. There should be a state law gov- erning the sale and use of firearms and ex- INEMIES THEY SHOULD NOT RnE, Chicago Tribune, The unfon and the nonunion populatio of this and other cities will have to go o living side by side. No catastrophe coul possibly wipe out one sida without incluc |ing the other. Rivalry there will continu to be. Business men competing for t: same business, workingmen competing f« the same jobs as rivals, but they exhib no hatred for each other, and often a: warm personal friends. This is becaus these various rivals observe in their riva ries their codes of honor, and are con fident they are being played fair, as the play fair, The first necessity for mutual respect ! the observance of the promise. Unlon which violate agreements are enemles t thelr own cause by bringing down upo themselves well merited contempt. Tt word should be as inviolable in comme: clal rivalry as the white flag or the re cross on the battlefleld. When honor be comes sacred, and the word means whi it says, a long step will have been take toward better things. Another advanc | would be the more cautious use of th sympathketic strike. It is not right t make one employer suffer because anothe 18, or 1s sald to be, doing wrong. If employ ers leave thelr fellows to fight thelr ow battles, unlons should do the same. ) the employers help. each other win loci fights, then untons will continue to d #0, to0. Another step will be the on advocated by President Roosevelt—public ity. When employers and workingme fall out over their respective shares o profits, it will simplify matters to have | known what those profits are. Rivals, capital and labor will remalr But enemies they need not be. And whe the necessary fights are belng settled, le the rules of civilized warfars be observed SMILING REMARKS, Now that I've met Brown's wife 1 quit understand why he is so dictatorial at th office. He has to have sc he can show his authos Doctor—Your husband needs a rest. H. 0 to Burope for six months. . Nagget—-Oh! T shall be just de llflled to ro there. octor—Good idea! You mnx f" for sl months when he gets back. That will give him a whole year's rest.—Philadelphi: Press. “You say your wi ¥ clgars for you?" Fes. insists on buying ‘Ha! ! hal " “Don't laugh. It's serfous. She says%he: kind I get are too cheap to be good. She o= plosives of all kinds. Springfield Monitor: While the legl lature was making new county offices at its last session it should have added an- other, that of county road overseer. Such an office is as important as county sessor. A drive over our county will con- vince any one that such an officer is really a necessity, as the present system of working our roads is abominable to say the least. With someone thoroughly com- petent to direct our precinct supervisors how, where and when to do the road work much better results could be obtained with- out the expenditure of any more money than under the present system. Most of our supervisors as farmers are all right, | but as road builders as much can not be sald. PERSONAL NOTES. Even the new battleships are getting | frisky and breaking speed records. ‘ The dowager empress of China would be ! apt to resent the “How old fs An?" Mr. Bryan probably knows now how un- pleasant a thing it is to have riches, it not greatness, thrust upon one. Life in Servia is very cheap. The highest sum paid to any of the assassins of King Alexander and Queen Draga was only $10,- 000, Dowie has at least one friend in New York. Devery says: “Why can't they leave the old fellow alone? He's got his own graft and Is working It right. Captain O. J. Hindon of the Boer army has reached Chicago, where he was met tmpertinent question, commander-in-chief of the Boer army, and together they went over the plans for the large Boer colony to be founded in Mexico. Whitaker Wright, London's farous pro- moter and confidence man, has been in- dicted. Wright handled schemes very much like the Shipbullding trust recently exposed in New York, but lacked the fore- sight to do business on this side of the pond. New York courts show a decided tend- ency to require husbands, who marry school teachers, to support them. The idea is & good one. In courting days men show extraordinary zeal in supporting their sweethearts The good work should con- tinue after the wedding. The Canadians take the ‘Alaska award hard; here, for instance, is the Montreal Herald expressing the geographical view of the situation in the schools now that the boundary dispute is settled: Teacher— ‘Describe Canada.” Pupil—"Canada fs that portion of North America which the United States doesn't want."” The laugh 1s on those Mississippl editors who criticised the governor of that state severely for accepting a portrait of Thomas B. Read to be piaced In the capitol at Jackson. The editors said that Thomas B. Read wis a republican, etc., etc., and the governor quietly rejoined that Thomas B. Read, whose portrait he had accepted, dled United States senator from Mississippl in 1820, and advised them to read up in the history of their state. insists on paying 50 cents aplece for them.’ ~Washington Star. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “is allus active at de wrong time. I knows a young cullud gemman dat'll go to sleep wif & ragor In his han’ while he's in de bahbe: shop. But when he gits to a pahlor socinly he wants to keep dat blado goin' all de e, Speaki: of turning new leaves, Jack Frost has been turning .a lot lately, al though they were not exactly new ones.- Somerville Journal Actor—Hurry or we'll miss the train. Actress—1 can't find my diamonds oF my urs PUSH, well, never mind." “Yes_but’ the purse York Weekly. $10 In 1t"—New Tom—Miss Lowd was in ‘ynur box party lant night at the theater. I heard. Trick—Yes, and everybody else within fifty feet of the box heard, too.—Philadelphia Press. “Do you mean o tell me that you would liberately buy votes?" d“2'()‘;'! lirse," Answered Senator Sorghum ““Thi the only way to buy them. The man who buys votes impulsively is almost sure to get the worst of the bargain.'— Washirgton Star. “L think {U's about time for Y 6 cemiia. bfe abtou ®ald the frst | l?lrl\ citizen, referring to & city hall of- | cfal. committea Why fnquired the other, “T notfce people are beginning to call him ‘Honest John.' "—Philadelphia Catholic Btandard. “Po the pure all things are pure’ wa remark sagely to the gentle-faced reformer. “'Bleas you, nol" he responds. “Not since they have made such marked advance in the search for germs.’ ge. he_poor pay? ks the worst kind_of poor pay. hat do you mean?’ ‘He's a well-to-do beat—the kind that pay the big items and ignore the small ones that are not worth & lawsuit."—Chica Post. 1 teacher haill: fry Me. fie::%‘-’ the shirt 'llxl‘f with disde. Bt wtHped N. 3 And 2" talor made skifi with a tre. And though her full name s Mo., One day she got madder than fo. 'or ‘a_boy called her ™ And the first thing he kn in_a coroner’: in They had called A HALLOWE'EN COURTSHIP. Francis H. Lee in New York Times, ™ *Twas twelve o'clock on Hi ‘When Clare, a winsome Up to the attic went to gaze Pato ner looking glass. husband's face therein Her futu Bhe hoj to see, 1 knew, And so I tiptoed up behine To mi the portent true. 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