Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1903, Page 12

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Communications relating to news and edi- torfal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by drafi, express or postal order gayable to The Bee Publishing Compuny, 2-cent ummpu .cceF\m in payment of mail accounts. Persona ks, except on maha or eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE x-uuuamua COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Georgo B. Taschuck, secretary of The Boe Publishing - Company, beng duly swo #ays that the actual number of full an gomplete coples of 5 The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunda. rinted during the month of Septomber. was as fol- 2.00 L2 180 100 EEBENERERERERED Total... Less unsold and nlurnefl coples. Net, total sales... Net average sales. . Bomn B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to betore me this 3oth day of September, A. ., 1903, M. B, HUNGATI, (Seal) Notary Publle. r_—.-—?_“—-—‘— Reglster today. Last chance to register today. That noupartisan judiclary bluft is played out. The voters will call it next Tuesday. The unexpected often happens {in politics, but the expected happens much more often. Have you registered? If not, be sure to register today under the penalty of losing your vote. Colonel Bryan is headed this way. He may yet manage to come in at the tail-end of the Nebraska campaign. The democratic campaign in this county is a go-as-you-please walk. The republican campaign is one-for-all-and- all-for-one. Republican success is in the air. Get into, the band wagon and ride at the front of the column instead of follow- ing the democratic hesrse If President Stickney can induce Min- neapolis mill men to erect a few grain elevators and mills in Omaha, the favor will be appreciated and reciprocated. Prophet Dowie is learning by his ex- perlence in New York City that a show thiat is good for a two-night stand will not necessarily draw well for a wmonth’'s run, E—————— Last ehance today to register for the coming election. Be sure to see that your name is on the list before the reg- trars close their books at 9 o'clock to- night. —— Omaha wants new industries and bus- . iness enterprises that will give employ- ment to wage workers. Any promising project in this direction may safely count on substantial encourugement. : — Judge Sullivan declares that he is seeking a re-election, not because he wants it, but because his party leaders Insist upon it. Under the circumstances the 'voters will try to please the judge by Belping him to retire. latest double-shotted and double- leaded Balvation Army editorfal that appears in the World-Herald is devoted to Judge Barnes' duty to the railroads, The next one should be devoted to the rallgoads’ duty to Judge Sullivan, There is a well-defined rumor that the alarm sounded by democrats over al- Jeged registration frauds: in South Omahba really covers a well laid demo- eratie colonization plan for registering several hundred colonized Omaba and South Omaha. voters in Al the army officers of importance are oun record in favor of the restoration of the canteen, but the chances are that congress Wil not act accordingly for fear of offending those who procured the legislation abolishing the cauteen, It is another case of sentimentalism versus practical experiency he interruption of the building season in this city by the labor troubles last spring is producing the wrtural con- sequence of stiffened rentals which might Have been expected. Men with money to invest can get good returns by putting up substantial dwellings in Omaba and letting them at moderate prices. Phe naming of one of the new mili- tary posts in the Philippines after Colonel Stotsenburg, who led the First Nebraska boys when they distinguished THE OUTLOOK FOR CUBA. The advocates of closer trade rela- tions with Cuba, which they urge as belug quite as much in the interest of this country a8 of the neighboring re- public, are expecting favorable action by congress at the extra session. Sen- ator Cullom stated in a recent inter- view that he believed the necessary leg- islation for making effective the recl- procity treaty would Dbo passed and there have been expressions from other sources to a like effect. It is the under- standing that a number of those who opposed the reciprocity treaty in the last congress have decided not to con- tinue thelr opposition and i such is the case the chances for the treaty are good. Hostility to Cuban reciprocity is still strong in California, but how" much weight this will have remalns to be seen, The sugar and tobacco interests in Cuba are of course anxiously awaiting congressional action. Conditions in the island are by no means bad, but it is apprehended that they may Become so if closer trade relations with the United States are not established. According to the statement of an American doing business in Ilavana the tobacco plant- ers made some money this year,' but the sugar planters who came out even were fortunate. He said that while there was plenty of money during the Amer- iean occupation, the advent of the Cuban government affected business un- favorably. Yet statistics show that the commerce of Cuba has been growing and are on the whole quite as favorable a8 could reasonably have been expected. One fmportant fact shown by the statis- Hes Is that while the imports from Cuba into the United States have very ma- terially increased, our exports to that country have not, and this fact fur- nishes one of the strongest arguments to the ‘supporters of reciprocity. It is certainly a reasonable contention that the United States should furnish a large part of all that Cuba imports, in- stead of allowing this trade, very con- siderable now and certain to grow, to go to European merchants and manu- facturers. We recently called attention to the Cuban trade statistics compiled by the Department of Commerce and Labor and they certainly show that this country_ has something to gain com- mercially from closer relations with Cuba. President Roosevelt has in the most unmistakable way shown his deep in- terest in this matter and he will doubt- less make a strong appeal to congress | on the subject. —— AMBRICAN ATTITUDE 4 FACTOR. The first report regarding the meet- ing of the Russian and French minis- ters in ‘Parls, as to the significance of which there is more or less speculation, the statement was made that the pres- ence of Count Cassini, Russian ambas- sador to this country, was construed to indicate that the attitude of the United States is a factor in the present discus- sions. While the nature of the confer- ence between theé foreign ministers of Russia and France is not clearly de- fined, it is naturally assumed to relate in part to the situation in the far east. In that case it is not to be doubted that the American attitude will receive con- sideration, though how much of a.factor it will be in determining the future course of European powers, and partic- ularly Russia, in regard to China is un- certain. ‘While it is safe to say that this coun- try will not be ignored in any discus- sion of the' far eastern Qquestion, still there are many who belleve that it is the settled purpose of Russia to even- tually shut the “open door” and exclude American commeree from China. It is that end, says a writer on the subject who appears to have given it careful and intelligent study, to which Russia is bending all her energles In the far east and to which she is making every- thing else subsidiary., “She is not fighting for an outlet to the always open sea, for that she has already se- cured. She Is not striving to enlarge her borders for the sake of more land, for she' already has more land than she knows what to do with. She is endeav- oring to injure and strike down her most formidable commercial competitor, the United States, and, baving vainly tried to do so while Manchuria was China's, she now proposes to do it by making. Manchuria her own. That is Ler chief reason for so flagrantly break- ing her promises to evacuate Man- churia. She wants to exclude America from that country.” All of which is plausible and may prove to be well founded. The latest advices report that Russian troops have entered Mukden, one of the open ports provided for .in the treaty between China and the United States, the pretext being that the Chinese did not pregerve order there. Count Cas- sinl is quoted as saying that the status of Mukden as an open port will not be affected. Possibly not, but the move- ment on the part of Russia, in view of past experience, is not reassuring. It is more than likely that she will find } some excuse for holding the control of this port and of course China is power- less to prevent her doing so. However anxious the Chinese governurent may be to act in good faith in carrying out the treaty with this country, it can alone do nothing in opposition to the will of Russia. . The American position has been clearly defined and is perfectly under- stood. It looks simply to the mainte- nance of existing conditions, so far as concerns the world's trade with Ohina. It aims to preserve the territorlal in- tegrity of that empire and asks that our treaty rights there shall be re- themselves during the war with -the Filipinos, is a delicate compliment which the friends of the lamented sol- dier will appreciate. Colonel Stotsen- burg left 8 name which is & eredit to himself and an houor to the two states spected. It seeks no special favors or privileges for the United States. It may be the alm of Russia to exciude due consideration in any Buropean dis- cussion of the conditions in the far eas OMAHA'S FINE FIRE RECORD. Figures compiled by the national board of fire underwriters, covering the fire statistics in the larger cities of the United States for.the last year, disclose that Omaha's record of fire losses Is de- cidedly creditable to its fire-fighting forces. The statistical tabulation re- duces the losses from fire to a per capita basis, and although some allowance must be made for the fact that the fig- ures come Jargely from the heads of fire departments who are anxious to make the best possible showing for themselves, still the relative position of the different cities is probably ‘un- affected by material errors. The table is as follows: Washington New York City . New Orlean: Chicago Portland, Loulsville $0.49 0.71 111 Baltimore 1 Omaha Peoria . Detroft Cleveiand Boston Beattle . Cincinnatl . Kansas City . Hartford (74 Memphis Indlnnnunlil .75 Atlanta Brookly! 88 Birmingham Ban_ Francisco Omaha's per cnpun fire loss of $1.51 is beaten by only four cities of any pre- tensions in the United States, while the average is at least 5O per cent higher. It is not wise to boast of freedom from fire losses, since much that is accidental enters into the matter of destructive conflagrations. A showing like this, however, is certainly cause for congrat- ulation and might even be made the basls for an appeal to the insurance ycompanies for concessions in Dbetter rates on fire risks. Philadelphia massssssssrstarsrcrcrorsld LIARVILISBIIIE3R CATCH 'EM CUMIN'~CATCH '8M GOIN. In its stupid anxiety to make political capital for Judge Sullivan out of the bible-in-the-schools-decision the World- Herald has given great prominence to the utterances of Protestant preachers who favor bible reading in the public schools, not for the literary merit of the #criptures, but because it inculcates re- liglous doctrines that are at the base of Christianity. In order to head off the threatened defection of Catholics, who constitute a large percentage of the democratic rank and file, a frantic ap- peal on behalf of Judge Sullivan, di- rected to Catholics, is made through the World-Herald over the name of “Blake Maher,” in the following florid strain: As a Catholic I am surprised and indig- nant at the attempt on the part of Mr. Barnes' managers to make use of Catholics for political ends. The use they are mak- ing of the decision in the bible case is nothing more nor less than an attempt to use Catholics to secure the defeat of Judge Bullivan and the election of Mr. Barnes. Buch an attempt savors of profanation and merits a decisive rebuke, and the Catholics of this state owe it to themselves and the church to see that the rebuke is effectively administered. Perhaps Mr. Maher is not aware of the fact that the shoe fits the other foot. Perhaps he is not aware that Judge Sul- livan's managers have foolishly but per- sistently projected the bible-in-the- schools decision into the political arena with the sole alm and purpose to draw Protestant republicans to Judge Sulll- van's support. Perhaps Mr. Maher is not aware of the fact that Judge Sulll- van's managers have. induced Rev. Meikle, a Methodist minister residing in Omaha, to issue a circular letter to the Methodist ministers all over the state, urging them to use their influence on behalf of Judge Sullivan in order to counteract the defection of the oppo- nents of bible reading in the public schools in general and Catholics in par- ticular. Whether this attempt of catch 'em comin’--catch ’em goin’ savors of pro- fanation and merits a decided rebuke, we leave Mr. Maher and the managers of the Sullivan campaign to decide. As a general thing religion and politics do not mix very well. Political candidates mounted on two horses riding in op- posite directions generally find them- selves after election “where the wicked cease from treubling and the weary are at rest.” The controversy between the council and the Advisory board over the pur- chase of a new fire engine is the same old controversy between sticking to standard-make machinery and experi- menting with new devices. In matters of this kind it is always safe for the city authorities to take the advice of their own experts—in this case of the fire chief—whose experience with fire engines makes him most competent to judge. It is always possible that new machines may be built that in time will demonstrate their fitness to stand be- side the old ones, but insofar as the taxpayers of Omaha are concerned we are sure they would prefer to have some other city pay the bills for the experimental period. —_— One of the noticeable things in the present campaign is the cards of the democratic candidates, which studi- ously omit any reference as to which party the candidate is identified with, The only rational interpretation is that the democratic candidates are either ashamed to ackunowledge their party or want to smuggle themselves into office through the votes of republicans who may not know to what party they be- long. The proposal of the Philippine com- mission to purchase 30,000 water buffa- loes to replace those that died from the ravages of the pest threatens to provoke complications in the neighboring sec- tions of China. It will be surprising in- deed if some shrewd financlal manipu- lator of saffron hue does not take ad- vantage of the situation to work up a corper in earibao. John Mitchell, the head of the national organization of the Mine Workers of American commerce from China, but if | America, insists that he has no pelitical 80 she will not find the task an easy |aspisations. What has destroyed the one. Meauwhile the sttitude of the | usetulness of most of our lubor leaders uulm-vflm-un has bees thely ‘-bpuq T R 00 g A2, THE OLD OCTOBER 31, 1903. RELIABLE Aboolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE preferment. If Mr. Mitchell sticks to his purpose he will retain the confidence of the laborers he represents. / a—— Wandering Crooks Cornered. Baltimore American. The movement among the nations of the world to formulate better and more promptly working extradition laws is a | great blow to criminality, and makes the | world a great deal smaller and more ex- posed hiding place for the fleelng criminal. Light Filtering In, Brooklyn Eagle, The Presbyterian synod of New Jersey is inclined to favor the restoration of the army canteen. It has made the discovery that the value of beer taken by each man during the day was 234 cents. Yet one would suppose that every camp was fllled | with roaring drunkards. Better leave the management of the army to Its officers, gentlemen. —_— Concerning Bunco Steerers. Chicago Chronicle. Some time in the early spring of this year Mr. Eryan made bold in the course of a speech to refer to ex-President Cleve- land as a bunco steerer and to certain gold | democrats in Chicago as confidence men. 80 far®as heard from none of the persons thus pleasantly stigmatized had snything to do with the writing of the last will and testament of Mr. Bennett of Con- necticut. Jmek Frost as Peacemaker. Philadelphla Record. ‘When the snow begins to fly the warriors usually bethink them of putting off their wars until a more convenient season. There are many signs of a more pacific disposition Loth in the revolting Turkish provinces and in the far east. In the spring, when campalgning will be more comfortable, there may be a resumption | of hostile preparation &nd a general biting of thumbs among the war lords. Great Business Institution. New York Tribune. The Postoffice department of the United States now pays out annually a total in excess of $138,000,000 and takes in receipts above $134,000,000. Buch figures are stagger- ing almost beyond bellef, but they ure offi- cial. This wonderful world goes spinning down the ringing grooves of change, and with its progress the activities and the de- velopments in this republic become steadily more extensive and more important. Too Much Talk. New York Tribune. One of the states of the union has decided that its legislature shall meet only once in four years, and that even then its proceed- ings shall be strictly restrained to ex- tremely short sessions. In various parts of the republic the sentiment against annual meetings of the Solons of the capitols and against prolonged deliberations and dis- cussions when the sages do assemble is evi- dently gaining ground. The belief that, earlier generations have been legislated for to excess and that there has been too much talking through weary months in state houses is steadily making headway. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Sargent, Commissioner of ~Immi- gration, is becoming tiresome. The coun- try was affifcted with him last summer, and now that his annual report 18 in, more warnings are being lssued about the dangers of immigration. If immigration were ever a menace to this country It was half a century ago, when our population was small, and we did not know how much assimilating we could do. Now our population is vast, and we have demon- strated our abllity to assimilate immigrants and rapidly make good Americans out of rather unpromising foreign material. In spite of all Mr. S8argent's shouting the coun- try will not become alarmed. Canals as National Highways. Philagelphia Press. The decision of the United States supreme court, Judges Fuller, Harlan, Brewer and Peckham dissenting, puts canals in states under the maritime jurisdiction of the United States. The decision grew out of repairs to a canal boat on the Erie canal, the owner holding that a law of New York state in regard to the matter could not apply because the federal government had jurisdiction of the canal. The supreme court by a vote of five to four upheld this contention. As the canal is wholly in New York and the federal government has never had anything to do with it, this decision has caused a good deal of surprise. It will apply to all canals in the country, no mat- ter where constructed or by whom owned. Downtall of Morganeering. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. J. Plerpont Morgan is attacked from many sides for his pecullar methods in the management of things in some of his trusts. The latest personage to assail him is the receiver of the United Btates Ship- bullding company. Morgan, Schwab and others 4id some queer financing in that combine, and, it 18 sald, this was one of the things that brought that trust to dis- aster. Whatever may have been the real cause or causes for the fall of the com- bine, it ¥s certain that it mo longer at- tracts any attention except as an exam- ple of the sort of promotion which should be avoided. The British and German ship- pers are laughing at the talk of Morgan and his friends of two years ago of how they were to sweep the seas of their rivals POLITICAL DRIFT, Late returns show that Mr. Bryan's will power is doing business at the old stand Des Moines is crowding St. Louls for the record by indicting sixteen officlals for crookedness. The official ballot for Tuesday's election {in New York City will be ten columns | wide, but it is not all wool by considerable. | Joseph Folk, champion hunter of boodlers, 'has publicly announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for governor of Missourt. Philadelphians express indignation over the idea of colonizing votes in New York. The scheme is decidedly raw, and not half | a8 decorous as voting the names of the cemetery population. The latest ‘“roorback” in the Ohlo campaign fs that Marcus Aurellus Hanna out-Hobsons Hobson as a kisser of girls. |As Marcus has votes to spare he can afford the gumming exercise. Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago has kindly consented to permit his name to go before the next democratic national con- vention. The announcement materially in- ereases the fall gaieties in Chicago. The state of Ohlo is entirely out of debt, there is a surplus of $3.000,000 in the state ‘trenury, and state taxes have been cut in two. As a sample of political financler- |ing the Ohlo exhibit takes the bakery. Mayor Holtzman, newly elected in In- dianapolis, declares his willingness to turn aver his job for a week or so to someone better able to deal with the swarms of office seekers who pursue him. His honor is willing to pay double salary to a sub for the time indicated. Postal card polls made by the Brooklyn Tagle, the New York Herald and the New York World prove beyond a snadow of a doubt that Mayor Low will be elected by from 15,000 to 3,00 plurality and that George B. McClellan will be elected mayor by & plurality between 8,000 and 60,000. As & betting proposition these figures are a cinch. Elections will be held in eleven states next Tuesday. Full state tickets are to be voted for in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mary- {land, Ohio, Kentucky, Towa and Missis- rippl, while in New York, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Colorado a justice of the upper courts, regents of the State uni- {versity or minor state officers are to be ! chosen. Municipal officlals are to be se- lected in Greater New York, San Fran- | elsco and Salt Lake. 8ix Hawalians have registered and wish to participate In the New York City election. They are known to favor the fusion cause, and their right to vote was questioned by some Tammany politicians, but Judge Brenner of the republican {campaign committee, holds that as they were born in what is now a territory of |the United States, they are natural born citizens, and can vote for local officers if they have resided a year In the state, AGE OF RAILWAY PRESIDENTS, Discussion Started by the Northern Pacific’s Cholce, New York Evening Post. ‘Wall street's attention was attracted to the age of well known railroad presidents by a statement following the announcement of Howard Elliott's election as the execu- tive head of the Northern Pacific to the effect that the Northern Pacific had the youngest president of any of the Important systems. This is not so, however, nor is Mr. Elliott below the age at which many other raflway presidents have taken office. President Elliott of the Northern Pacific is 43 years of age. W. H. Baldwin, jr. president of the Long Island, is 40 years old, and has been at the head of that road since 18%, Stuyvesant Fish, who is now 62, was chosen president of the Illinols Cen- tral when he was 36. George J. Gould began his railroad experience in an officlal position as president of the Little Rock & Fort Smith at 82, and has been at tho head of the Missourl Pacific since 1893, B. P. Ripley was chosen president of the Atchison in 189 at 51, while in 1899, at the same age, A. J. Earling was placed at the head of the St. Paul. Charles 8. Mellen, who resigned from the Northern Pacific to become president of the New Haven road, started with the western system at 46, As against these relatively youthful starts, one of the best known rallroad presidents In the country, A. J. Cassutt of the Pennsylvania, was 60 years of age when he accepted the position. President Newman of the New York Central at 5l was elected president of the Lake Shore, while James J. Hill took charge of the a‘eu Northern In 1889 at 51. Joseph Ram- , §r., has been president of the Wabash for' & liltle oTer & Yiar, Sad'\s aow 88 “THE NAAE 15 EVERYTIING.® Esterbrook :Q““M\““”‘f: is lowest. :‘MWWM”“M“M““““““W PASSING OF OLD STAGERS. Ravages of the Matrim ial Fevor ‘Wifeless Senators. Pittsburg Dispatch. Hardly have congratulations ceased to pour in ¢n Henator Platt and his young bride when the current of public attention is directed to Senator Willlam Morris Stewart of Nevada, the oldest member in point of service of the upper house of con- gress. Senator ftwart, following in the footsteps of the jNustrious New York sena- tors, has at the age of 76 taken unto him- self a wife more than thirty years his junior, and to all appearances is preparing to continue his notable public career for many years longer. The senator has wav- ered in his political faiths now and then and has passed through many stormy periods, but it is gratifying to note that through all he has clung tenaclously to the tender passions which predominate the race, and an admiring public will extend best wishes for the couplé, at the same time holding in high regard the cournge of the sturdy Nevadan. ‘While. statistics show that American manhood is yearly deferring the problems of matrimony to a later mit the United States senate is clearly entitled to the present day record In this particular. Sena- tor Depew, who is 69, set the pace, roon to be followed by Senator Platt at 70, ard now comes the gallant old westerner. It 1s a sentiment of poesy that ‘hearts don't change much, after all” and the recent acts of so many notable public men fully sustain the ides No Trouble in the West, New York Commercial Advertiser. While we in the east are sadly computing our losses in watered stock and looking for a general collapse in business to justify the havoc we have brought upon ourselves the farmers of the west, no longer cumbered with heavy mortgages, are contentedly transacting their flourishing business, ig- norant of or indifferent to sufferings which they do not share. The unchecked plans for railway development in the west are significant not only of the present pros- perity of the country, but of ‘substantial grounds for assurance that it is based on solid growth and will continue, uninfluenced by the troubles of eastern speculators, Crossing a river Taking out a policy of life assur- ance early in life is like crossing river near its source. surance is then lowest, and the width of the river is there narrowest. river widens and deepens as it flows toward its outlet, so the cost of assur- ance increases the longer it is delayed. 1f, while in early manhood, at the head of life’s river, a man assures his life, he can do so with comparative ease, as the premium is then lower than it ever will be again. waits, the larger will be the premium he must pay annually. defer the matter until old age, the cost might be prohibitive. A river that must be crossed some time should be crossed at its narrow- est point; and when a man knows he will need life assurance some day, he should procure it at the time the cost The cost of as- As a ANV The longer he If he should The Equitable Life Assurance Society H.D. NEELY, Mgr., Merchants National Bank bidg., Omaha, Neb. JAMES W, ALEXANDER, President HENRY B. HYDE. Foun JAMES H. HYDE, Vice-President THE WEST 'NDEPENDENT, and Lamentations of Wall Street ¥all ¢n Deaf Ears. Detrolt Free Press. Many fall to understand how it Is possi- ble that eo many salted mines could have been scld on Wall street, how such a large proportion of values could have been wiped out, how promoters could have grown tabulously rich without having rested their fortunes upon any solid foundation, how character, confidence and values could be wrecked, without bringing disaster upon the whole country. It is impressed upon the popular mind that the United States rhipbuilding concern, judged by ordinary conceptions of morality, was one of the most unblushing frauds ever perpetrated, a consclenceless and vulgar conspiracy to rob the unwary and confiding. Yet it was nothing more than modern promotion with the guise of respectabflity torn off because those involved could not find enough vie- tims to win the millions anticipated. Many of this class of sharpers are coming to grief and the aggregate of loases hus reached proportions that cannot be measured. According to precedents this should bave caused a national panic. But conditions have changed as the result of an era of prosperity. Wall street fs no longer in financial control. It is not long since the west, cspeclally beyond the Mississippl, was dependent upon the east for ioney and paid the usurer's rate for belng taken care of. Now all classes declare that the troubles on Wall street have not touched them. The farmers are depositing money instead of paying everything they can rake and scrape on mortgages. They have ample crops and are getting good prices for them. It is straining transportation facllities to take care of the trafic. Manu- facturers ure enlarging their plants in an attempt to meet orders. Traveling men say they cannot furnish goods fast enough to méet the calls made upon them. The elevators are full, the catile are fat for the butcher snd the heavy deposits with the banks meet every lozal demand. The west stands proudly upon its own feet. It operates in actual values and the specu- lative movements of Wall street are en- tirely apart from the abiding wealth which it is bullding up. Walls We Don’t Want to Knock We want your pusiness; therefore don’t let these § and - $60 suits, that you are in the habit of buying, prejudice you against the ready-to-wear sort that you can find here at $20 . This new Clubman suit that we place before you this fall, is an exception. I"ine style and fine tailoring, and will compete with anything the merchant tailors can possibly produc from any point of view you may take, They are cut over special patterns, and made more extreme, The coats are big shouldered with semi-shaped waists, col- lars narrow and snug, and we pledge the shape holding parts to you. overplaids predominate. these swell suits of us. Beautiful fabrics in which subdued plaid and Bave your money $20.00 will buy a beauty. and buy one of NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. E,ronng King §-@ | R. 8. WILCOX, Manager. \