Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1903, Page 14

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REMITTANCES, Remit by dra‘t, express or postal order yable to The Bee Publishing Company, 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. sonal checks, except on aha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Blate of Nebraska, Dougias County, ms: orge B. Tsechuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, Says that the actual number of full nd plete coples of The Dally Morning, &\'enlnl and Sunday Bee printed during e month of October, 1903, was as follow Futiaing, Twen- 22,820 83,170 31,100 EBBEREREBE Not average sales........ A GBORGE B, TZSCHUCK. dtore e nis 48 Bay ok OClobeny A- Dy ore me U ay of Qctober, A, D., S M8 HUNGATE. Even the good old Indian summer must come to an end with the advance ~of November, A brief supply of seasonable weather ,)}H‘ht now would be a welcome stimu- lant to retail business. ‘Why all this fuss about the young woman who eloped with a Chinaman? ) Isn’t this still a free country? A study of the crop statistics of No- braska leaves no room for doubt on the “question whether up-to-date intelligent farming pays. ¢ ——— The new Nebraska revenue law has Jotten Into the supreme court. The chances are it will fiud it much harder ‘to get out than to get in. b _ After the American Public Health as- poclation gets through with the sleeping car blanket it might with equal propriety tackle the hotel bed quilt. ————— Our old Nebraska friend, Consul Gen- eral John Jenkins of San Salvador, is to be congratulated for taking his leave of absence at the right time. m— Prophet Dowle seems to have found his recent excursion into the enemy's country as disappointing’as did an emi- ment political prophet a few years ago. m——— That annexation talk in Canada' is gradually subsiding. It will take more than one arbitration disappointment to Jar the Canadians loose from the colonial shelf of the British empire. Tt may be safely put down that those committee assignments are not bother- ing Speaker Cannon half so much as they are bothering the members of the house, who all want to be provided with the best berths. . o amees—— The first of the legislative bribery eases in Missourl has run up against a ‘bung jury. In the light of the acquittal of Jim Tillman by a jury in South Carg- lina, the public is not purprised at amy flagrant miscarriage of justice in these days. | EE————— Governor Mickey in his Thanksgiving proclamation earnestly recommends the good people of this state to attend di- wine worship in their churches or family eircles on the designated day. For some unknown reason be falls to nien- tion foot ball as a substitute for church attendance. The chalrman of the national commit- tee who is to manage the next presiden- tial campaign for the republicans will not be formally chosen until next June. That leaves plenty of time for specula- tion among the political gossipers and for the rise and fall of any number of smbitious statesmen in the mention lst. e Having been acquitted of the charge of exercising hypnotic powers over a client, Colonel Bryan still hankers after & vindication for his professional abili- ties as the legal adviser in drawing the Bennett will. It is not so much the money he is after as a refutation of the insinnation that he made a bungling job of it, when as a lawyer he ought to have known better. eee—— The hazards assumed by the political forecaster are delightfully exemplified 1u some of the New York weekly period- feals which go to press several days before the dates they bear on their flag- staffs. Harper's Weekly, 1ssued for No- vemben 7, or four days after the election s over, gives a large amount of space to prophesies on the mayoralty cam- paign gathered from varlous sources, and adds its own prognostication that “whichever candidate is elected his piu- rality is not likely to be Y In the next number the editor will be busy felling how it happened. \ D NORTH, PLATTE, Neb., Nov. 5.=To the Bditor of The Bee: Now that the politieal eompalgn Is over I would suggest that The Boe Inaugurate a campaign for the develop- ment of the resources of the state, and that in such a campalgn let it not be for- gotten that right here in Lincoin county, In the Platte valley, we have a district that will rival the famous Greeley dis- trict In the production of sugar beets and alfalfa, and that all we need to make this district as productive as the Greeley dis- trict gent farming population to utilize the land T. C. PATTERSON. The suggestion is a good one and The Bee will be glad to second every legiti- mate effort to develop Nebraska's re- sources and build up the state in any part of it by the inauguration of new en- terprises or the attraction of new popu- lation. The expansion of the sugar beet industry is one of the promising fields of Nebraska agriculture. Nebraska alone consumes many times the amount of sugar which is produced by the beet sugar factorles already in operation, and thore is no good reason whatever why the home market should not be fully stipplied by home production. Nebraska is essentially a food-pro- ducing state. We have bullt up a large meat packing industry at South Omaha which has been of untold benefit to the stock-raisers and stock-feeders who mar- ket their cattle at this point. This in- dustry, however, is capable of attaining much larger dimensions and is sure to grow with the utilization of the by- products in subsidiary establishments. It devolves upon the farmers and stock- men of the state to co-operate with the 20,060 | Captains of this great industry and con- tribute tangible aid by giving the home market preference over its competitors, Of even greater importance to Ne- braska is its production of cereals after varfous degrees of transformation, which &0 to feed the world. The work of mill- Ing and transforming the wheat and corn and oats into prepared food prod- ucts can be done just as well in Ne- braska as at eastern points. Omaha is néw engaged In a vigorous campaign for the creation of a grain market that will hold a place in time with the cattle mar- ket already established. With the grain market must necessarily come mills and factories that will consume a large part of the grain and give a steady home de- mand to our own farming commupity. The creation of a home market at Omaha would not interfere in any un- favorable way with the milling indus- tries at Interlor points of the state, but if anything would help them in the long run, Every citizen of Nebraska inter- ested in its growth and prosperity should be interested in the success of this sig- nificant project. Let the campaign for the development of Nebraska's resources begin at once znd never flag. s C—— SECRETARY HAY'S STATEMENT The secretary of state has done well in promptly giving to the country a statement of the reasons which impelled this government to take the course it has in"fegard to Panama. Not only ‘was there opportunity for misjudging the action of the United States in the recognition of Panama as a de facto state, but the government was charged with having countenanced and fostered the revolutionary movement, which if it were a fact would be a reproach to this nation of the gravest character, The essential point In the statement of Becretary Hay is that the United States has a treaty obligation in regard to the Isthmus of Panama which it was bound to observe in the interest of the world’'s commerce. Under this conven- tion our government was required to preserve the neutrality of the isthmus and maintain free transit across It. This authority has been exercised on several occasions and under it naval vessels were ordered to Colon and Pan- ama when the present revolution was proclaimed. There is no question as to the action of our government in this regpect being entirely proper and legiti- mate. It was necessary both in com- pliance with the treaty and for the safe- guarding of American interests. As the secretary of state says, the considera- tions which confrolled at the time the treaty was made have become more important in every year since and “our acquisition of Hawall and the Philip- pines has given them a greatly en- hanced value. The control in the inter- est of commerce and traffic of the whole civilized world of the means of undis- turbed transit across the Isthmus of Papama has become of transcendant im- portance to the United States.” This is as fully realized by other governments as by our own. The secession of Panama and the or- ganization of a new government there will not affect the treaty. The obliga- tion of the United, States in regard to free transit on the isthmus remains. “As long as the isthmus endures,” says Becretary Hay, “the great geographical fact keeps alive the solemn compact which binds the holders of the territory to grant us freedom of transit and binds us in roturn to'safeguard for the isth- mus and the world the exercise of that inestimable privilege.” Of course there is not the least danger of the people of Panama not accgpting the conditions of the treaty. They have already an- nounced through their representatives in the provisional government that they do so and theré will be no change from this, It can confidently be predicted, when the new state is fully organized. They are intensely’ anxious that the canal shall be bullt, they know that it can be constructed only by the United States and they will put no obstacle in the way of the great enterprise being undertaken by this country. In regard to the recognition of the independence of Panama, Secretary Hay states that it has the warrant of all our precedents and principles, There ‘was no opposition to the revelutignary movement. The parent state did noth- ing to repress or interfere with it. It was effected without any conflict. The few Colombian troops sent to the isth- mus withdrew, except those that joined fs an equally numerous and intelli- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: the revolutionists. Tn stances our government was fully jus- tified in recognizing the provisional gov- ernment and instructing our consuls to enter Into relations with it. We do not belleve that any trouble will grow out of thia action on the part of our gov- ernment, but anticipate on the contrary that a permanent government will be peaceably established in Panama as soon as it is possible to do so and that It will be assured the protection and support of the United States. EESepT—— ANOTHER STATEHOUD TANGLE. There 1s a new tangle in regard to the admission of the territories to statehood which it is apprehended may render the situation more perplexing than it has been. This Is due to an issue between New Mexico and Arizona, The former has practically concluded, says a Wash- ington dispatch, that it will stand a much better chance for statehood by agreeing to the absorption of Arizona. This has caused indignation among the citizens of Arizona, who feel that they had better walt for years than consent to such a proposition. The delegate from New Mexico, who is now in Wash- ington, has announced’ that another statehood bill would be introduced for his territory and that while he would very much like to have New Mexico separately admitted, he would gladly ac- cept the annexation of Arizona If he could get his bill through in no other way. That the ‘people of Arizona will most vigorously oppose any such propo- sition is certain and it is quite probable that they will have the support of the democrats in congress. The effect of such a contest will very likely be to further postpone action' on the statehood question, though it is pos- sible that there may be legislation for the admission of Oklahoma. It is stated that Speaker Cannon will be no more friendly to statehood than was his_pre- decessor, in which case the question is pretty sure not to be acted upon at the coming session, since there is no reason to expect that the opposition in the sen- ate will bé less determined than in the last congress. It is quite rafe to predict that the statehood matter will not be disposed of until after the presidential election. T THE AGE OF FAME. Bearing upon the discussion of the age at which men have accomplished sub- stantial achievements that entitle them to recognition as factors in contem- porary progress, statistics compiled in connection with the new edition of the bandy, volume called “Who's Who in America,” offers some interesting infor- mation. We are becoming so accus- tomed to hearing it said that the young men are the men who do things in theso twentleth eentury days that the impres- sion is too apt to prevail that experience gained only with age cuts no figure in lasting fame. Out of the 15,204 men mentloned in this biographical compendium 12,888 re- sponded to inquirles relating to their birth. Of course, all of these men are not to be termed famous, but all of them have done something to distinguish themselves ebove the common crowd. It turns out that of those whose blog- raphies have been considered worth ‘while printing only 146 are less than 30 years of age and only 1,740 more are un- der 40 years of age, as against over 11,- 000 who are npwards of 40 years, The editor calls attention to the fact that be- cause the great majority of the men having biographical mention are per- sons of mature age does not provg that they were not of prominence when they were much younger, many of them hav- ing laid the foundation for their present positions by some notable work decades ago. The fact remains that it takes time to acquire, build up and develop the facul- ties that make for distinction in any line of trade or profession, and that the in- fant prodigy is the rare exception to the rule. As the editor of this compllation aptly says, “The day of the young man 18 here, but the day of the mature man, even of the old man, is not past.,” THE LAW FOR PULICK OFFICERS, Several instances of co’mpuudvely re- cent occurrence in Omaha in which po- lice officers have been criticised for re- sorting too freely to the use of their fire- arms in the apprehension of criminals give a local interest to a decision just rendered by the supreme court of Penn- sylvania, refusing to reopen a case in which a policeman was convicted for manslaughter. In this particular in- stance a member of the police force in the town of Bomerset fired a fatal bullet at a man whom he undertook to arrest for burglary when the latter refused to halt at the call to do so. The synopsis of the opinion gives it as the ruling of the court that an officer is not bound to retreat when he is attacked or when a criminal resists him, but that he has no right to kill merely because the individual whose arrest is desired takes to his heels in an effort to escape. Commenting on the decision a writer in an eastern paper says that there can be no question of the soundness of this In- terpretation of the law, because to allow a police officer, or any peace officer, even with a warrant in his possession, to shoot and kill the person sought to be arrested merely because he flees to avold arrest would be to vest the officer with the right to inflict the death penalty without trial of the accused or suspected party. It might be added that any other rule would Jeave it to the arbitrary whim of a police officer to shoot down defenseless people on mere suspicion that they were defying his authority and make the po- lice officer a lawless autocrat with the lives of the whole community depending upon his pleasure. Policemen often have aggrayated cases to deal with, but they should learn the lesson thoroughly that they are not themselves to commit erime under pretense of suppressing crime, and that the lndividual, even though subject ’ SUNDAY, NOVEMBEK 5, 1903, to the penalties of the law, has rights which the officer of the law is bound to respect. E——— IMPUORTED CONTRACT LABOR. Forty Welsh miners imported under coutract by the Ellsworth Mining com- pany of Pennsylvania have been ordered deported. They will be returhed at the expense of the steamship company that brought them over, although presum- abiy the company was ignorant of the fact that they were under contract to perform labor In this country. The guilty mining company escapes all pen- alty for its offense against the law. In reference to this the Philadelphia Rec- ord remarks that according to the act of congress corporations importing labor- ers shall pay a fine of $1,000 in each case. “But of any intention to prosecute the Bllsworth company there is no evi- dence. The only sufferers by the trans- action are the decelved miners and the innocent transportation eompany. This manner of administering the contract la- bor law is well calculated to relieve its violators of any apprehension of the con- sequences.” There 18 no more important feature of the law than that which provides a pen- alty for importing contract labor and it ought to be rigidly enforced. This mat- ter is now in the hands of the commis- sioner of the bureau of corporations in the Department of Commerce and we are not disposed to belleve that he will neglect the duty which the law imposes. The case of the imported Welsh miners appears to be a peculiarly flagrant one and there seems to be no good reason why the mining company should not be prosecuted and made to bear its just share of punishment for a plain viola- tion of the law, which there can be no doubt it was fully aware of when it con- tracted with the allen labor. ILLITERATE IMMIGRANTS, Much is said, by the anti-immigration- ists, as to the great number of illiter- ates who come to this country, but as matter of fact when the children under 14 years of age are deducted the propor- tion of {lliterates is not great. Thus out of 857,000 Immigrants who came to the United States in the steerage of ocean ships during the fiscal year ending with last June, only about 76,000 or 77,000 ‘were settled illiterates, or about 9 per cent. This is only a little worse, ob- serves the Cleveland Leader, than the showing made by the latest census among the residents of this country. Nor are the immigrants of recent years the chief offenders in respect to illiteracy, says that paper. “Nearly 4,900,000 out of 6,180,000 illiterates over the age of 10 years were natlve born. There are wide reglons in this country in which the proportion of illiterates among the native born is greater than it 18 among the Immigrants of the last fiscal year. Recent immigrants are not 8o terribly illiterato as they have been plctured. The country will not be swamped by their lack of edneation.” It would be well 1f those wWho profess S0 much alarm at the namber of 1llit- erates who come to this country would look more closely into the facts, ‘Word comes from one of the interior counties of the state that the new county commissioner law passed by the last Nebragka legislature may have to run the gauntlet of the courts through the refusal of an outgoing commis- sloner to recognize its constitutionality and yleld to his successor elected under its provisions, which require a vote throughout the entire county instead of by districts as formerly. The law affects all the counties that have been districted for representation in their county boards and its rejection by the courts would probably make a notable difference in the control of the affairs of more than one county. It goes with- out saying that the law is to be con- sidered good until declared void by com- petent authority. S If Spain does not want to participate in the Louisiana Purchase exposition because it is an American enterprise, it is at perfect liberty to refuse to do so. The invitation, however, is hardly a proper pretext for the attack upon the United States in the Spanish Parlia- ment, although many Spaniards may harbor a feeling of resentment growing out of the late Spanish-American war, If some one in our own congress should give a similar exhibition of spleen against Spain, we would soon have a formal protest. Sm—— According to the Financlal Chronicle the net earnings of the American rail- roads for the eight months previous to September show an increase of 14 per cent and the gross earnings an increase of 156 per cent. If any other business could make an exhibit of profit equal to this it would consider itself in remark- ably fine condition and would hardly feel required to resort to retrenchment or the discharge of employes, It is not fair to put labor leaders gen- erally into the Sam Parks class any more than it would be to put all the bankers into the embezzler brigade be- cause an occasional banker goes wrong. Give the honest and intelligent labor leader the same credit for sincerity as the enterprigjng employer so long as he is engaged in working for the improve- ment of his own people. Look Pleasant, Please. Portland Oregonian. If Canada ever expects to become a part of the United States it will have to gut g00od natured. This country declines (o have relations with any country that grum- bles and scolds as much as Canada does. The Sleeping Blanket. Philadelphia Record. The sleeping car blanket would be much less of a menace to bealth If the sheets were large enough to protect it from con- tact with the sleeper. Cheap as cotton cloth is, extraordinary economy is prac- ticed in making sheets for sleeping cars and steamboats, and the blanket is gener- ally In contact with the face or the feet of the occupant of the berth. If the blan- kets be washed only ouce in six months, it 18 imperative that the sheets, which are presumably washed after each using, should contain three or four cents' worth more of material Bumper Crop of Wisdom. Indianapolis Journal. With Towa more heavily republican than ever, and Nebraska safe by & goodly plural- ity, the corn belt appears to have come back into the fold without any reserva- tions, People out there have learned wis- dom with prosperity. Minor Details Overlooked, Indianapolls News. A New York man who is at the head of a corporation capitalized at $900,000,000 is under arrest for failure to pay his board blll. In these days of mammoth enter- prises, however, it seems Inevitable that some of the minor detalls of life should be overlooked. Baltimore American. The fact that in the Indian battle in Wyoming with a sheriff's posse one of the Indlan leaders was a graduate of Carll school is not a telling one in favor of the gratitude and patriotism of the red man, On the whole, concerning the education of the Indian, it is hardly what might be re- garded as a reassuring fact. Not Like Mother Made, Philadelphia North American. Our butters and canned goods and jams and jellles and beers and whiskles and wines, mocording to Prof. Wiley, are nearly all alumed and boraxed and glucosed until we don't really know whether we are eat- ing a sealskin sacque smothered in moth balls or a stone quarry a la Newburg. ‘What is the self-respecting housewife to do? Who can be expected to contrive rasp- berry tarts “like mother used to m from aniline dye and hayseed? Wh i the individual who will rejoice in the ver- dancy of the tinned pea when he knows its emerald hue is due to copper—and the mines in Montana shut down at that? Y M of To Philadelphia Inquirer, The young men of today are too finicky— too much glven to self-analysis, too self- pampering. Their shoes and neckties cost more each year than did the entire ward- robe of their grandfathers. They feel a sense of degradation in small beginnings and plodding, and they wait for success ready made to come to them. There is not & young man In the country who would imitate Ben Franklin and march through the streets munching a loaf of bread while looking for employment. He dares not, in- deed, because society has become also fin- icky, and he would be arrested as a tramp. The young man of today wants capital. Trusts and combines and corporations dis- tress him. He cannot be president of a bank or fudge of a court the first week he is from school, and he feels, like the famous Eli Pussley, that he has ‘*no chance.” EXTRAVAGANCE AT FUNERALS, Not & Cheerful Subject, but It Points a Moral, Chicago Chronicle. Undoubtedly there is no more useless, wasteful and foolish form of extravagance than that which takes the form of expen- sive funerals. The expenditure of money for sllver-trimmed coffins, long lines of carriages and other outward evidences of grief is a form of ostentation which often taxes the resources of the survivors and in many cases actually bmpoverishes them. It 1s sometimes urged in defense of this kind of extravagance that it is & manifes- tation of affection and respect for the de- ceased. The plea ls unveracloifs in most cases, Mortuary profusion is, in most ip- stances, prompted by an unworthy desi: to be “as good as anybody else.” It is a fear of neighborhood comment which im- pels many family of moderate eircum- stances to order a funeral sultable—if suitable at all-for a millionaire. The dread of having someone sneer at “a cheap funeral” has run into debt peo- ple who would otherwise be in comfort- able circumstances. Terror of unchari- table gossip has enriched the undertakers and rendered otherwise sensible people abject slaves of a bad custom. It 1s encouraging to note instances of a revolt against this evil conventionality. Prof. Max Wright of Leland Stanford uni- versity, who was buried at Grand Rapids, Mich,, not long ago, left instructions that he should be interred in a plain pine box costing $2, and that the $200 which would ordinarily have been spent for his funeral should be distributed among the poor. Dr. Gifford of Kokomo, Ind., provided in his will that he should be buried at night In a cheap coffin, with no attendant save the undertaker, Cremation, which is a comparatively inexpensive method of disposing of the human body, i& increasing in favor. Many people are rebelling against the foolish tradition which prescribes that the rela- tives of the dead must impoverish them- selves In order to manifest their grief. It is to be hoped that the movement will find adherents in increasing numbers. ‘The trappings and the suits of woe are & relic of barbarism and when they be- come an extravagance they should be abolished. HARD LUCK AND HARD SENSE. Retglling & Tale of Woe Imcreases the Teller's Troubles. Saturday Evening Post. One of the keenest politiclans that this country ever produced took & vacation and went to Europe. At the suggestion of friends whom he met in London he decided to secure the services of that useful funo- tionary known as a “man,” a combination of valet and companion. He reduced the applicants to one, and was about to com- plete the negotiations when the fortunate person began to tell him of his career, his ambitions, opportunities and miefortunes—a genuine hard-luck = story. The politician listened for a while and then suddenly. in- terposed: “I find that T do not want you,' and when pressed for his reason, added: “I never hire hard-luck people, especially the kind who talk about it." There seems to be an injustice in this, and there doubless 1s. At the same time this politician was a judge of men or he would not have been a successful politictan. Most persons who have achleved success are obliged to listen to hard-luck stories despite thelr efforts to avold them. The and protects himself by anterooms and swinging sates, is to escape callers who want to tagke up his time by narratives of thetr misfortunes. Fvery large center of population has it army of hard-luck sufferers, them are men of education, men of posi- tion, men who are almost, but not quite, strong enough to reach sucoess. Their point of view 1s out of compass; thelr bearings are wrong: their attitude is that some one who has succeeded must make amends for thelr own shortcomings. These unfortunates are probably the most hopeless persons in the world—hopeless not 80 much in thelr own 1deas as in the possi- Dilities of thelr reformation. When a man places his own Inadequacy on Il luck he is not worth anything to snybody-wot even to himself. . Luck {s the tide, nothing more. The strong man rows with it if it makes toward his port. He rows against it if It flows the other way. Fair or foul, flood or ebb, he rows. And the world has very little time ta waste on the man who complains that the tide did not turn st every bend to sult him. . _ e s o e A e e e e o SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Philadelphia Inquirer: It is sald that of | the fifty-six recrults who represented Dowie's total result in New York not more than a dosen belonged to the city, the oth- ers being from the ranks of the Dowleltes themselves. One moral may be that a red-hot religlous campaign In the midst of & white hot political one does not pay. Philadelphia Press: Ballington Booth was not permitted to take any part in the funeral program concerhing the remains of his sister, Mrs. Booth-Tucker. This wi by order of those representing General Booth in London. He believes In a des- potic sway llke that of Dowle, and does not forgive his son for establishing a more liberal order known as the Volunteers of America. It means that there will be no reconctliation. Springfleld Republican: Commissioner Eva Booth of Canada will not succeed her sister, Mre. Booth-Tucker, as consul, for it seems that as consul she was “co-equal with her husband by virtue of being the wite of the commander. Of course, woman not his wife can assume the office of consul so long as he fs allve’ Mr, Booth-Tucker remains commissioner, then, and there Is no consul—the word seems to have acquired a new meaning in Balvation Army parlance. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. As a matter of fact, Ann doesn't know her own age, except by hearsay. Twelve million dollars In sight would start a revolution in more conservative spots than Panama, Affairs on the neck of the western hemi- sphere tend to show that Senator Morgan has a speech coming. Observant girls who watch foot ball con- tests may obtain valuable pointers for use in the Christmas rush. When a Chicago kiss draws a verdict for 325,000 it 18 safe to conclude that the period of inflated values has not passed. The most remarkable phenomena of the waning year is the discovery of spots on the sun, and no reporter on the spot. Tammany not only hogged the offices, A ‘learned Chicago professor says the earth s good for 100,000,000 more years, That affords ample time for the bullding of urban trolley lines. “Bilk socks,” says the late Mr. Devery, referring to his former chum, Charley Mur- phy, “don’t always mean that a man has no corns on his morals.” Out of their superabundant kindness, re- publicans express a willingness to provide padded cells for “our friends, the enemy,” who bet on Johnson carrying Ohlo. The Solomons of the Massachusetts Su- preme court decide that it is unlawful for @ man to get drunk in his own home. It is also more dangerous in cases where the “dear wife" gets busy. Another Solomon has arisen on the bench of Wisconsin. He hold: that a woman's escort is justified In resenting the Insults of & masher, even to the extent of kicking some sense into the masher's head. May his tribe increase. Colonel Watterson shows admirable self- restraint concerning events at the fsth- mus. The Courler-Journal continues on a peace footing, and the only revolution in sight is in the press room. Meanwhile the “gray wolves” are coming out of tall timber. Republican spellbmders of a generation ago, who pounded Cobdenism Into the earth, may now enjoy the spectacle of Britishers larruping thelr favorite off- epring. Bqually amusing Is the indiffer- ence of demograts, 'who on former occa- | slon eried out In angy, ohiid ™ It s evident from thireturns that / Dowle's “restoration hostdid not maké much of an Impression New York. Tammany worked both sid of the street and camped in the rmiddle. ——— DOMESTIO PLEASATRIES. “Peduncle, are you enged to Miss Quickstep?”’ s, —oconstruotively.” don't understan She knows she can have e whenever she will say the word,"—Chigo Tribune. Newcastio—Was _there & romance connected with your et 2 ulnu‘zmmfn:m““'um 3o, et 6 and she acoe) me recl at #:16.~Detrolt Tres Erass. o Wite—Wasn't that Mr. Guzzlere v He seemed rather precccupieds & Do Husband—He looked to me rhat you might b called “ocoupled.’” eosTyRleat How do you sant Husband—Full.—Philadelphia Pes. " Prisoner, why did you strike ts man]"” “If you please, your honor, hccame. to me suddenly and said, “How old AnnT "Well, what hurt did anu' Why, you see, your honor, Ann | - Clevalnnd’!’lfln Mo e b dhawc - ;‘l‘ln Van Tassel is golng to (bble in Well, she should make an ideal roker," “Why so?" ";Ile‘r]nunoh uae s ml.dmd:d and bne of other brokers wou re squeey her.'" ~8t"Louls' Post Dispateh. = wWhat's that you're reading?" [It's called ‘A’ Model Man' and Jthink lt'fiynwh-lly stupid.” es, the model man nerall par- foularly after b e L bars on Tess—He proposed to me today afi he was 80 impatient. He wanted me to iarry him °:’llht away. But I was not ) be hurried. Jess—30 you put him off, eh? Tess—Yes, indeed. I told him he'd jave ;o wait untl tomorrow,—Philadephia Tess. “"When you pucker four live that wy," says the billiardist to his sweetheart, ‘f is my cue for a kiss ' y “Is 1t7" she fles. “Well, I don't osom many you taki For she had not yet learned the adi- tional interest that may be siven b game by the establishment of & balk-] —Judge —_——— THE ©OOST OF LIVING. Bismarck Tribune. (Btllhfl:i,m say the cost of living s e- Yo with the bloodless story Of figure and fact arrayed, Heard ye no tale of the mother's pdn On the bed where the child is T Ye tell of the cost of living— Took ye no thought on it: shed price that a mother jays and the patience Infinite? ‘What is the cost of living? That wept o'er the clay of an tdel, Ere the sun was noonday high? What 1s the cost of living? Heard ye of none who di High on ‘& cross of shat hopes And longings unsatisfied? B eard yo o itier Gy \ ea) e no | r ory Of ‘men acoursed with the taint of sin,| Fearing to live or die? \ ‘What is the cost of living? All of our toll and All of our doubts and sorrows, GAll of our woes and m and wi Life for his debt clal Never the sum dec Now, or ever, or aye. The costume that will add most to the charm of a woman’s figure must have for its foundation a New Model J. B. Corset. J.B. The Corset of Today is the most up-to-date example of the Corset, has yet Maker’s Art that America produced. The New Models are sufficiently varied to exactly fit . the form of every woman and are sold by leading dealers at $1.00 to JOSEPH BECKEL & 00,, Makers 434, 436, 438 Broadway, N. V. Dewey & Stone 1715-1117 FARNAM STREET Buffets and China Cases CHINA CASES Bquare China Case, quartered oak, $ILTS. China Case, bent glass ends, polished quartered oak, $17.00. China Case, bent glass ends and door, made of selected quartered oak, polished, $23.00. Large line of new designs at §24.00, §27.50, $30.00, $23.00, $35.00, $58.00 and higher. Furniture Co. Special line of new patterns in China Cases and Buffets, beautifully made and finished with and without mirror backs, in all sizes, at very low prices for this week. BUFFETS Buffet of selected quartered oak, large pattern plate mirror, finely finished, $34.00, Buffet made of the finest quartered oak, full swell front, extra large pattern plate mirror full length of top, heavy French legs, at $43.00. Others at §20.00, §35.00, $46.50, $54.00, 960.00, $64.00, $73.00 and higher. The above line of Buffets and China Cases is especially good and exceedingly cheap, DEWEY & STONE FURNITURE C0., ~ 11151117 Farnam Street,