Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 13, 1909, Page 14

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Remit by draft express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps received in payment o mall accounts. Personal checks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted — STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. 88.. George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn says that the actual number of full and completa coples of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 19 was as foilows . .. 41,790 42,480 2., .. 24. 26.. 26 Returned coples Net total ... Dally average . 41,721 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Bubacribed {n my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of Noyember, 1909 (Seal.) M. P. WALKER, Notary Publle. Subscribers leaving the eity teme bave The Bee Address will be d. It does not look quite so serious for the Syrians. What the disarranged Poe lock at the 800 needs may prove to be a cryp- tographic key. The train-robbing industry will not be quite so popular in this vicinity for some time to come. Dr. Eliot appears to consider It a part of his new religion to scuttle the Alaskan coal pirates It only remained for the Land of Steady Habits to add a dash of nutmeg to tickle the presidential palate. Govarno; Shallenberger has re- leased his Thanksgiving proclamation. It 18 up to Mayor “Jim' to jar loose. —_— “Mary Jane's Pa,” having gone on the war path, the rival forces seem to be doing a Savage dance to the strains of Dixie. With “Bob” Burdette back in good health in his pulpit, Los Angeles may renew its claim to being a land of per- petual sunshine. Assignment of a surgeon to com- mand the Solace should not be taken by the line officers that there is no solace left to thom. The fight over the division on the reward for the capture and conviction of those train robbers will next occupy the center of the stage. Mr. Bryan s going to South Amer- ica to find out whether the voice of the people calls him to run for United States senator in Nebraska — From the_vlioru;m' punishment in- flicted on Michigan students for imbib- ing juice of the vine one may conclude that Ann Arbor is no grape arbor. —_— President Lowell of Harvard evi- dently believes that athletics is a form of life insurance, of which a man ought to carry all that he can stand. b — Although females suffered activity of the seven from the excessive Cleveland bigamist, he was convicted and sentenced for mail frauds. sex discrimination. — Now that they have buried the em- press dowager, it is fair to assume that the lady is really dead, though one can't most always sometimes tell about these Chinese diplomats. —— Coineident with the announcement that a “man higher up” has been caught in sugar frauds comes a boost In the price of sugar. Thus are the wweets of harmony maintained More In architecturally adapting itself to 1ts environment the big eity church is departing from the ancient stateliness of ecclesiastical construction. But why shouldn't a church be a skyscraper? If the trafiic officials are sincere in their announcement of a new faith that the roads will gain most by fair dealing with the public they will find that the public, like Barkis, 1s willin’. This shoe family is getting to be ublguitous. A little while ago it was Take-a-shoo, and now Gaus Ingashu is leaping into prominence clear from the Afriean wilds. That's a long shoo-fly trom the Arctie. Governor Shallenberger says we have much to be thankful for. We trust he will be able to convince some of those who feed on democratic news. papers that wWould bave them believe sverythiag has gone wroug. " |immigrant, is sound philosophy | Character in the Immigrant. Secretary Nagel's utterance, voicing his convicti of the EByrian's fitness |for citizenship, that personal charac- [ter and not racial antecedent should determine the reception we accord the that |will commend itself to every thought- :'ul American. It was one of the thoughts that animated the nation {when it adopted the constitutional |amendment proscribing race as well as |color from being a bar to the right of suffrage. | Altogether too much attention has been devoted to other matters than character in seeking to devise ways to |regulate the influx of immigration. i()rlzlnnl nationality is not the true test; there are desirables and unde- sirables in every land. The possession of money cannot truly determine; the rascal often finds it easler to provide himself with sufficient funds than does his honest kingman, and the head tax can be made to defeat its own pur- pose. Learning is not the chief asset to be required; lack of education does not necessarily prevent a man being a useful eitizen nor limit his fitness for the practical affairs of life. Our experience has been from the begin- ning that the best citizenship acquired from immigration has been based not on the education nor financial rating, but on individual character. Personal qualitles are the test of the man In every community. Is he industrijous, sober, honest, is he truth- telling, on the square? The answer to this question determines the wel- come of the stranger. Rugged ex- terior, absence of book learning, should not prejudice against the new- comer, nor should the fact that the capital with which he must pay his way consists of a strong pair of empty hands. Because he comes from a country where he has been denied ad- vantages open to every man here alike is no reason for shutting the doors in his face. For the whole coun- try, as for each community in it, the test should be not the ancestors of the man, but the man himself. Race for Naval Supremacy. The recent panic of England con- cerning German preparedness for war acquires a new significance in the offi- clal announcement from Washington that the German navy has leaped from fourth into second place in actual fighting sea strength. Besides passing both France and the United States in tonnage in commission, Germany {is re- ported as having under way nearly much new battleship construction as has England. The burden of this race for naval supremacy is emphasized by the knowledge that, although our govern- ment {8 perfecting the heaviest naval program that it ever yet carried on, the tonnage involved is less than half of the amount of comstruction under way in either Germany or Great Britain. The fact that Japan has made but little gain in naval strength, in spite of rumors that she was mak- ing great strides, may be taken to in- dicate a policy of keeping a lesser force up to a high state of efliciency. For those who believe that it is the man behind the gun that counts there may be some comfort in reflecting that the United States as always leads all countries except Great Britain in the strength of official and enlisted per- sonnel. Despise Not the 0ld. Recent experiences demonstrate that in the matter of transportation it is not wise to despise the old things ut- terly with the advent of the new, for necessity may impel us to return to the methods neglected if not discarded. The canal towpath, which became a stock subject for jest, has been en- nobled by the Suez and Panama un- dertakings, and in the present day of trafic complications is fast coming into its own. New York state has rehabil- itated its old Erie waterway, and now three states of the middle west are jointly planning for a canal across country from Toledo to Chicago, eliminating a long haul around the northern sweep of the lakes. The steam locomotive proves to have been extremely premature with its threat to relegate the canal to com- plete oblivion. Pokey though that humble highway of trafic may be, the possibilities of its usefulness have only just begun to be discerned. Toledo and Chicago and the places be- tween have extensive rallroad facili- ties, and the proposed canal will cost a prodigious sum, but the need for additional means of transportation in- dicates that there is no limit to the trade of the country nor to the value of a mode of commerce that not long ago seemed outdistanced and' ex- hausted. fitennption of News Channels. The easy-going dismissal of personal worries over the silence of the absent, with the remark that “no news is good news,” hardly applies in the case of interruption of established channels of iutelligence. No news was bad news in the ominous silence that greeted |the vain effort to raise Charleston after the earthquake, which the Amer- ican people could for some time only wildly guess at. A similar lull preceded news of the devastation at Galveston, and cables were interrupted by the tremors attending the Martinique catastrophe It was & matter for grave concern, therefore, when the days extended into a full week with no tidings from Jamaica nor any ready means for ob- taining information as to why the ca- bles had gone out of commission. Even the suspense engendered by such a situation {s a keen shock to those whose business interests or friends and kindred are involved The first gleam of relief from the imaginings of eivilization, cut off from its accustomed communication with an important island, came from that latest modern marvel, the wireless, like a voice from the heavens, setting at rest the apprehension that the gem of the British West Indies may have been swallowed by an earthquake, and giv- is not as grave as feared. The city of Kingston and the terri- tory of the island have only recently recovered from devastating storms, and this new visitation will doubtless prove to be a sufficient calamity to en- list the world’'s sympathy and help; but knowing the worst is better than the terror of the urknown, which is aroused every time the elements in- terrupt the workings of the regular channels of communication. The Visit of the Japanese. the vieiting Japanese commissioners who are making a tour of inspection with a view to posting themselves on the conditions of agriculture, com- merce and industry in the United States. ‘When the Japanese look over Omaha we Dbelieve they will find here more than anywhere else the typical inland city serving as the market town for a vast area of rapidly developing agri- cultural country. As a railroad center they will find Omaha to be the gate city of the west, the main valve on the artery of trans- continental traffic. It they inquire into our history they will find here a community of nearly 200,000 people, including the suburbs, which has grown up on the edge of the prairie within a little more than fifty years, It they size up present appearance and business conditions they will find Omaha a pushing, progressive city fully abreast of all the most advanced achievements in city building and rest- ing its substantial prosperity upon a foundation of unteld agricultural re- sources in a tributary territory that is excelled nowhere throughout the world. Our Japanese visitors will have cov- ered a vast area and stopped at all of the most important industrial centers in the country, in each of which they will have been impressed with claims of superiority along particular lines. Notwithstanding this, Omaha may rest confident that their visit here will make them underscore Omaha on their maps and that they will take away with them many suggestive observa- tions and ideas. P The coining of the new Lincoln pennies and the designing of a new nickel bearing Washington's head serve as a reminder that in his life- time the first president expressed him- self severely against putting any hu- man face on an American coin. He considered it as savoring of monarch- fcal custom. Yet the reverence felt for Washington or the sentiment of the people toward Lincoln at this day is wholly within the limits of Ameri- can tradition. In the selection of a design for coin or stamp it is a safe rule to utilize only the likeness of de- parted heroes. The democratic World-Herald de- clares that the platform will settle it for the party, but carefully abstains saying which platform. The associate editor who writes the article has just been defeated for election a candi- date for office running on the populist platform distinctly committed to county option. If platforms are bind- ing and he did not swear falsely when he accepted the popullst nomination, he must be for county option. Which alternative will he tak St. Paul and Minneapolis announce their intention of going after an Indian supply depot without specifying whether they want to take it away from Omaha or from Chicago. Omaha has been accustomed to saving the supply depot at least once every two years and our democratic con- gressman may as well practice up for the rescue act In & spectacular tank scene with the usual stage setting and the calcium lights all on. That's real rich about the rank and file of Nebraska democracy writing the platform when it is a matter of com- mon notoriety that for more than ten years not over three or four people have had a hand in writing the plat- form, and not a single democratic plat- form has been adopted witheut first getting the O. K. of Mr. Bryan. —ee. What in the world ails the Boston school boys, that they have to be com- pelled to learn to swim under a new rule of the Board of Education? With much water around the Hub, the Bostonese linguistic substitute for “Come on in, the water's fine,” ought to be the first words lisped there. Expert evidence has been carried to the extreme in the testimony of a clockmaker, who insists that a clock figuring in a murder case had been stopped by hand because it was wound up. That witness has Sherlock Holmes backed off the boards. Unless all portents fail the demo- pop plan is to play the same old game in Nebraska agaln next year by run- ning the candidates on twe platforms, 80 that as populists they way be com- mitted for county option and as dem- ocrats they may be against it ing definite news, which, though bad, | Omaha is next on the itinerary of | THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1909. In Other Land | Side Lights on What is Frans. piring Among the Near Far Natlens of fthe Barth The industrial development of Germany in recent years the subject of an en- | thustastic sketch in the Review of Reviews, by Bernard von Schulze-Gaevernitz. The riter is justified in pointing with pride |to national progress in this and other lines since united Germany succeeded a collection of rival states. ade In Ger- |many.” is a sign of industrial progress and trade expansion famillar the world over |In a quarter of a century, with unsur- | passed skill and enterprise, Germany has |conquered many of the world's markets and built up an export trade of astonish- Ing proportions. The writer points out that Germany's population has Increased one-half in forty years, and among the leading nations of rope her birth-rate Is relatively the highest. “Today,” he ex- claime, with a significant squint across the North sea. “Germany, Midas-like touches unseemly stuffs and under her hand they become coinable gold—Germany, the new industrial state, rising In greatness and soon, perhaps, to equal the colossal power of England!" Every glowing plcture of pregress has its shadows, and that of Schulze-Gaevernitz s not an exception. The Midas-like touch does not transfer inte empty pockets enough of the coin of the realm to drive away the specter of poverty. Last winter the number of un- employed in the large cities was as colossal as the army of unemployed in England. A German publication, Statistisches Jahr- buch, shows that there were 60,000 skilled laborers out of employment in Berlin and a proportionate number in other citles. Some Industrial recovery has taken place during tho summer and fall, but not suf- ficient to decrease materlally the ranks of the unemployed. The authority quoted asserts that this condition Is responsible for the marked revival of socialism in the empire, and the problem of caring for the unemployed this winter is as perplex- ing in Germany as it is in England. The recent visit and the cordial of relations known between both monarchs, continues a topie of keen interest in European government circles. The general impression of its sig- nificance s drawn from natural causes, the Czar to Italy to exist and points directly to Austria’s forcible annexation of the provinces of Bosina and Herzegovina. No doubt the emperor of Russia keenly resents the widening sphere of Teutonle influence in Slav territory, and would have encouraged forcible re- sistance at the time if Germany had not intervened with a suggestion that could not pass unheeded. In proof of the Czar's resentment it is worth noting that in his journey to and from Italy he deliberately avoided passing through Austrian or Ger- man territory. Taken together with the extreme cordlality of his welcome in Italy, a cordiality personally enjoined by King Victor, they indicate a reallgnment of European powers opposed to Teutonic ex- pansion. Russia and France have long been close allles. The reapproachment of France and England is one of the recent triumphs of King Edward's diplomacy. Italy has long been a member of the triple alliance, chiefly from the necessities of its situation. With Russia as an ally on the north and the tempting trade inducements it can offer it will be seen that Italy has much to gain commercially at least, In cutting loose from rivals who have ob- tained a practical monopoly of trade in the near east. Putting these links together 1t is not difflcult to peer into the future and prophecy an alignment of Russia and Italy, France and England opposed to the ag- gressions of Germany and Austria. The Berlin treaty was forcibly suspended last spring, but it left several live accounts for time to settle - The prospects of an early general elec- tion in Great Britain draws attention to two factors in the contest who rarely pose in the spotlight. It is part of thelr business to avold publicity, to perform political duties on the gumshoe plan, me ure the trend of public sentiment and re- port to party leaders from time to time. J. Percival Hughes for the conservatives and Sir Robert Hudson for liberals are regularly employed party managers, the first named recelving a salary of §10,000 & year and the latter §12,00. The duties are extensive, and very important to' their parties. To them is committeed the task of noting the public pulse, directing dis- trict agents, digesting reports and hand- ling party finances. In a political crisis such as now {mpends, the reports of these managers largely influence the minds con- trolling the direction of affairs and the policies to be pursued In certain contin- gencles. If both sides are us anxious for an appeal to the country as they profess to be, it is fairly certain these alert in- terpreters of the public pulse see victory ahead for their respective parties. B Those chesty Austrians whose joy over the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina made a Viennese holiday are now sharply reminded that they who dance must pay the piper. The Austrian treasury has a large juicy deficit, and the finance min- ister proposes to do the usual thing in such cases—pile on more taxes. An in- crease in the tax on incomes, dividends, in- heritances and spirits has been decided on, and two brand new ones proposed, one on bachelors and one on married folks whe have no children. Truly the joy of work- ing and striving in Europe nowadays must be limited to the preclous few who can dodge the attention of the tax gatherer. The new Turks are developing new ideas | in the matter of financing a boom. It is| proposed to borrow $100,000,000 for the con- struction of naval dreadnaughts, and in- augurate a world's fair at the same time. They believe that a great exposition r vealing or suggesting the immense possi- | bilities of their land would give a marked | impetus to development in the manufac- turing industries and to commerce, and seven big fighting ships would prove to the world that Turkey was not immune to the naval fever. Fallure to uncover the millions supposed to have been hidden away by Abdul Hamid in some nook of the Yidiz Kiosk left the new regime with an empty treasury, and it does not feel any better than it looks. Though all the euts possible to locate on the payroll have been | provided for, there is not enough doing to afford epportunities for the ambitious, hence an exposition and navy yard ac- tivity will stimulate things in the right | way. The ex-sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, is not taking his exile at Salonika philoso- phically. A writer in “T. P. Weekiy" tells that sometimes, after sitting along for a long time at his table, wrapped in gloomy mediations, Abdul strikes the table with his fist—a thing that he had never before been in the habit of doing—and cries delicious, healthful— o ive the most valuable ingre- d?:t. the active principle, to Insures wholesome and delicious food for every day in every home NO ALUM with fatigue, he falls asleep, only to wake up with a start and rush round the room as if pursued by phantoms. In fact, the deposed Turk seems to be about as un- happy as he can well be. - China's dowager empress has been dead €0 long that the news of the elaborate funeral that {s in preparation is somewhat startling. The explanation lies in the cus- tom of providing a common resting place for the princes of the imperial dynasty, and in the vitally important part which the departed played In the daily lives ot living Chinamen. Ancestor worship in- volves an attention to the bodies of the departed, and to thelr spirits, that occu- ples a large portion of the time of the de- vout Chinaman. Whatever modern educa- ted Chinamen may think of these core- monies and customis, they are surrounded by an antiquity so great and upheld by a tradition so0 compelling that no one has dared to set them aside. ———— BANKER J. KENNEDY'S LOYALTY Recollections of F HIIl Struggle. New York Evening Post. The death of John 8. Kennedy recently removed another of the fast diminish- ing group of old-time bankers and railroad men whose activities in the early fifties did much to develop the west and add to our banking connectlons abroad. Mr. Kennedy figured prominently in the negotiations attending the organization of the Northern Securities company. His hold- Ings ef Northern Pacific stock were so large as to bring him very tempting offers from the opposition forces in 1901, when efforts to wrest control from the Hill- Morgan faction led to the sensational “‘cor- ner"” eplsode of May 9 with the quotation ot 1,000 for Nerthern Pacific stock. Always & stanch friend of James J. HIill. Mr. Kennedy backed the Morgan syndicate throughout the Northern Pacific fight, and refused really fabulous prices for his hold- ings. With Lord Strathcona, James J. Hill and a foreign client, Mr. Kennedy was sald at the time to hold one-quarter of the $80,- 000,000 Northern Pacific common stock. Just what' his own holdings were was not disclosed, but in speaking to a friend of the tempting offers made, Mr. Kennedy sald: ‘We could have gotten all kinds of prices for the stock, but not one of my friends would think for a moment of deserting Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hill. We set out to stick by them, and no offer, however tempting could induce us to sell our holdings at a time when to do so would have meant possible disaster for the Morgan side. I know of one man in Europe, a close friend of mine, who refused a flat offer of several million dollars from the Kuhn-Loeb forces, although such a price for his holdings meant & really prodigious profit for him. He was an old-time holder and got his stock at a price which looks almost ridi- culous In comparison with present quo- tations. “But we stuck by our friends, regardles of every sort of inducement held out tc make us desert them. There was no falter- ing, althbugh things were done, and offers made, that were distinctly calculated to make men falter. But there was more than | money at stake In such a contest, and Al- though a strife such as we had then leads | frequently to uniooked-for complications, and sometimes forces men to make new friends, none of us ever thought of such a thing for a moment. We were on the side of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hill from principle, and we were with them to see them through, irrespective of what rewards were held out, or what was done to make us change our attitudes. It was & great big struggle, theugh, such rarely tries men in th days; but I guess Mr. Morgan knew pretty well who his friends were when he got through with it Nebraska Porkers in Oregom. Oregon Journal. Oregon saw a strange sight yesterday. Three carloads of Nebraska hogs arrived at Portland, consigned to the Unlon stock yards. They were not brought under con- tract, but were consigned by the Nebraska shippers to be sold In the open market at the yards. It is the first shipment of the | kind In Portland, and probably the first to the coast. Nebraska hogs have been brought here under consignment, to the purchaser, but not before under a con- | signment in which the shipment had to run the chances of a sale by competitive | bidding. The lot went to Tacoma buyers Let the Tests Go Om. | Buffale Express. In the International Congress on Alco- holism & lively debate arose over the| question as to the effects of liquors when consumed in small quantities. As no agree- ment could be reached, it was concluded | to postpone the subject for further investl- | gation. In the meantime it may be as- sumed that muftitudes of peeple will con- | tinue to practically study the question | for themseives in all Its aspects, without | walting for the decision of an Interna- tional Congress. Two Grades of Judicial Law. Boston Glebe. Judge Mills says that the papers in the Astor diverce case were ordered sealed for the sake of the children, but all the same the granting of the divorce in three min- utes’ procedure in the court and the com- plete secrecy obtained tend to sustain the contention of these who declare that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. Washington Herald. | A Nebraska judge has decided that a kiss does mot mecessarily constitute a pro- possl. His honor does not propose that there shall be one sort of law for the “Nalet Olsun! Nalet Olsun!” (Malediction! Malediction!). Sometimes he gets his wives to draw cards and make revelations about his future, but before this operation is fin- ished he gets up suddenly and goes away, saying: “Bashem Shell Bashem Shel!" Fu- tlityl Futliityl), At times, when overcome seashore and another for the interior Boston Herald. After all the others get through naming the new supreme court judge, dent will offer his suggestion the pres | have been bullt up and rieh regions de- | veloped on the basis of estaBlished rates. | It will not do to proceed too lightly and | hastily about the business of rearranging POLITICAL DRIFT. Senator Daniel of Virginia has seventy- two majority In the legislature, insuring his re-election. At the last roundup seventeen aspiring candidates for mayor of Boston were branded. Several mavericks are believed to be running loose. John K. Tener, member of congress from Scranton, Pa., formerly a base ball pitcher, announces to the political bleachers that he is a candidate for governor. Thinks he knows the game, United States Commissioner James A. Shields of Brooklyn last week observed the fifty-fifth anniv ry of his entering the service, and recelved congratulations from a host of admirers of superdread- naught grip. One of the constitutional amendments adopted by the voters ef Rhode Island establishes representation in the legisla- ture on the basis of population. The old system of districting gave one country voter as much power as two voters in the citles. Signs of the coming legislative contest on the federal income tax amendment are visible In New York. A poll of legislators- elect taken by the New York World indi- cates the requisite two-thirds majority in both houses. But the legislature does not assemble for seven weeks. Meanwhile, op- position is developing in a way likely to carry much weight. Several state papers are arguing that a federal income tax would take from the people of the Empire state one-fourth of the total, or approxi- mately §50.000,000 per annum. This argu- ment, together with the suggestion that the tax would bring in so much revenue as to endanger the protective principle, is being vigorously pressed where it will do the most good —_— “A FUNDAMENTAL OMISSION.” One Vital Feature Missing in Rall- rond Regulation Laws. Minneapolis Journal. Senator Cummins In his speech at Chi- cago Saturday, discussed, amohg other things, what he characterized as ‘“‘the fundamental omission” of our raliroad leg- islation—namely, its failure to regulate the capitalization of railroads. At the outset, however, he pointed out the essential dif- ference between raflroad investments in the old ploncering days and such invest- ments nowadays. A man who risked his money and energy when raflroad building was largely a reckless gamble, is entitled to the rewards of his enterprise mnow. Many companies, moreover, have capital- ized the increased value of their proporty, and even their surplus earnings. These things are done and cannot well be undone. But it would be an easy mat- ter hereafter to regulate the lssue of stocks and bonds and to require, as Senator Cum- mins suggests, that there be no capitaliza- tion that does mot represent independent investment. This 18 & “fundamental omission,” be- cause there can be no just basis for fair rates, until it 1s known on what capitaliza- tion a railroad may justly seek to' earn dividends. The capitalization question thus lles at the bottom of the whole problem. ‘We have made great progress, as Senator Cummins points out, in securing justice as between individual patrons of the rail- roads. Rebates and discrimination, as be- tween individuals, have disappeared. There remain aiscriminations as between locali- ties and sections. This is a much more delicate problem, because the very life of a city or a section depends on its railroad rates. Our system of rates has been of slow growth, and it is a growth that has not alweys been logical. But great cities these rates on the basls of abstract jus- tice. Regard must be had for conditions they are, not as they ought to be if geography alone were considered | Some Leathery Humor. | San Francisco Chronicle Shoe manufacturers have notified the retail trade that, notwithstanding the new tariff rate on leather, there will be no reduction In the price of their product. The reason glven shows that the boot and shoe trust is not deficient In humor. It declares, with every aspect of seriousness, that vegetarianism has grown so common in the country as to seriously affect the use of beef as food and the production ef Ghe Best When Browning, King cattle te supply it. Flence dear hides and a regrettable necessity of sticking te the old prices. Probably the cutlery trust will also be affected by the soft food habit and may ralse the price of table knives Rights and Privileges. Brooklyn Eagle This call to arms appeared in a recent iseue of the Commoner: “Wanted-—-Men who dare to stand for the Jeffersonian dootrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none.” There is ne Nmit to the number. The more the merrier, always providing that they concede the usual exception te the rule. In any event, it will be enforced at the next national convention, the only question being who shall have second plac on the ticket. For this distinction the do trine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none obtains until Mr. Bryan expresses his preferences. After that, it ix different PASSING PLEASANTRIES. ‘‘Pedestrians do not more than contempt In trolleys and automobiles.” “No, but there is no need to speak of them so disparagingly. I hate to have them run down."—Baltimore American. mest with much is rapid age of The touring car had turned upside down burying the motorist under 1it, but the vil- not to be so lightly turned ou hidin® sir!"” he sald severely. "I must have your name and address.”—Utica Herald. Friend—What {s the title of yeur poem? Poet—"0, Give Me Back My Dreams!" Friend—And what did the editor write te_you? Poet—"Take ‘em!"—~Cleveland Leader. “I will give you a pointer.” Is it a tip on the races or on stocks?" “Neither; it's a dog.” ood, and in return I'll give you £o0od bird dog?" ‘No; it's & hen.”—Houston Post. “That stuck up Mrs. Gaddam won't speak to all the neighbors. She says she has to draw the line somewhere," She was drawing it on the back fence this morning. You know, she has to do her ewn washing.""—Baltimore American, ‘‘Here's a pioture of a witch, mamm: BSee—the book says she has an evil eye." “We don't say ‘evil eye' now, darling: We call it mental malpractice.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, ‘‘Are you running your railroads for the benefit of the public or the stockholders”’ “I'm no umpire,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “If we pay big dividends the public complains and if we don’t the stoekholderx kick. I'm inclined to maintain neutrality as a high-salaried official and let ‘em fight it out.”—Washington Star. “Tell me the old, old story,” simpered the heiress. “Well,” sald the duke, “T owe about $2,000,000.""—Loulsville Courier-Journal “I'll say this for Alfred,” remarked the boy's father; “he's patriotic. and is doing all he can to reduce the government's pos- tal deficit. Ever since he went away to #chool he has written to me about fou times a week asking for money. Chlcl::n Tribune. ENCORE. Oh, whither, little Bumble-Bee, Pray whither have you flown; We grieve to see the space usurped That ence was all your ow We miss your lively little bu: They miss your stings who get 'em, When they opened up the Ev'ning Bee And glanced down to the bottom. We pray thee little Bumble-Bee Why go you off to hide? The winter's comin’ on 'tis true, But it is warm inside; The coal man needs yout proding sting. The foot ball field does, too, And that old Thanksgivin' turkey— His train is almost dne. You see, old Mr. Bumble Bee You shouldn't seek your hole When all that scrappin goin’ on About the frosty pole; When Teddy has not 1 ¥rom chasing in the ju s at th ppeared gle— If_you fors: our job Come back, oh, truant Bumble-Bee That furnace st'ng s Jdue; The great Corn show will soon arrive The rubber shew will too; The sawdust waders will advance And take in every ftem Here are splendid targets for your stings, We pray thee do not slight ‘em Now errant Mr. Bumble Boe. "Tis no time for suspension Of duty for the weather man Will soon need some attention So hearken Mr. Bumble Bee. And whereso'eer you roam Just buckle on your harness And make a beeline fer home. Omaha ~BAYOLE NE TRELE Possible & Company make Cloth- ing for Boys, they make it, as they do Men’s Clothing the best they know how. The quoted price is quality. not in itself a proof of The quality of our Suits is guaranteed hy the name they bear. The price sible for the quality. is always the lowest pos- Furnishings and Hats, too, for boys and children. Browning, King & Co B ; K/ CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS AND HATS, /' FIFTEENTH ano DOUGLAS STREETS, OMAHA. R 8. WILOOX, Manager, - - —— e — e e — e~ ’