Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1909, Page 14

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Remit by Araft express or postal order payable to The Tiee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps recelved in payment of naf) nccounts. Personal checks, ur-evl‘:d‘ Jmaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. tate of Nebraska, Dougles County. George B. Taschck, treasurer of The Bee ipany, being duly sworn tuml_number of tull and of The Dally, Morning. funday RBee printed during the menth of October, 19%. war as foilnve: 1250 18.. 41,790 Returned copies Net . total Daily average Subscribed fn my presence and sworn to Lefors me this 1st day of November, Seal. POWALKER, ey Y Rotay Publle. Subscribers leaving the city t orarily ah What a swarm of lies in the sugar bowl, | It Ig Dunn is ready te take it back and apologize, why doesn’t he? The next question is, Will Sam ring off that telephone deal? Uncle | The more Uncle Sam considers the cold deal Chile gave him, the hotter he gets. t While the sugar ring refrained from being good, it was for a long time careful. Those Canary island tremblings must have been the tremolo of the canaries. No one need think that the French children mind the burning of those scheol books. If Mrs. Stetson were an actress she would be expected to announce in the papers “At liberty.' Ambassador Thompson is now pres- ident of the Pan-American rallroad and the Lincoln Star, Scouring the eas for Colonel Astor's yacht will not cleanse the records of the divorce court, The promised opening of more land in the Rosebud reservation will find plenty of people ready to dash for the Pine Ridge pole. ——— Opé brave girl has demonstrated on the Chicago elevated that a well-di- rected punch will rout a robber, even if it's only a ticket puneh. Those life sentences for train rob- bers will have a tendency to make fu- ture bandits study their geography to make sure of keeping out of Nebraska. —— = i A female doctor has arisen to an- nounce that the electric chair is not fat And this after they have buried 50 many of its victims under the de- lusion that it was. Our amiable democratic contem- porary has a call-down for Ross Ham- mond for “Pounding a Corpse.” It evidently wants that privilege reserved exclustvely for itself. That Muskegon democrat who for seventeen years has been under a hypuotic spell to vote for Grover and Is In a bad way. Where are the other spellbinders Longworth did not take that horseback ride as described in Fraulein Krobel's book, we venture to belleve that when the emperor of Korea reads about it he will wish she had. Mr. Gompers may think that he is wbused in the matter of free speech, but just et him consider the awful case of those Knox college girls who are forbidden te yell for their favor- ites on the foot bdall fleld The man who has written a book to demonstrate that the cigarette is a ““Pyrant in White" has overlooked the real claimant for that title who makes the fathers of the land walk the floor when they should be slumbering. ‘bile Busapla Paladino is having Our Neighboring Revolutioni: The significance of the decision of our government as voiced in the mes- sage signed by Secretary Knox after consultation with the president con- gerning the Nicaraguan affair is not |In the language of the dispatch, which is that usual in such cases, in con- formity with the established intern: tional blockade code, but instead lies in the fact that by recognizing the blockade, “if eftective,” we virtually commit ourselves to recognition of the rebels operating against Zelaya as revolutionists. Recognition of such belligerents has uniformly beem withheld in the practice of the State department, but the knowledge that Zelaya's long- established hostility to' Americans had actually taken the form of operations against American interests in Nica- ragua and also execution of Ameri- cans without trial, was bound to pre- cipitate action. The United States manifests no desire or intentlon to take any active part in the conflict of the two forces, and its vigilance thus far is confined to protection of its own interests, but the fact that eircum- stances required us to acknowledg: the belligerency of the insurgents may lead to attempted reprisals which will stil] further involve us in the future of that republie. The natural disposition for us is to keep hands off of these troubled Cen- tral American republics, but when driven to take a hand events march fast. Since we have committed our- selves thus far, it might be worth while to consider seriously the subject of a convention that should put an end to these constantly recurring ebullitions so destructive of trade re- lations and subversive of prosperity among ourlesser neighbors. While they take advantage of our protection through assertion of tha Monroe doc- trine, they should give us some sort of assurance of good behavior. The Burden of Armament. Nations of Europe are beginning to look askance at the ndval programs, and there are Indications that a halt eventually will be called upon the na- val rivairy of the world. Great Britain 18 already beginning to stagger under the gigantic burden of its peace arma- ment and has not succeeded in straightening out {its budget crisis when France also awakes to the fact that naval and army expenses have brought it face to face with a budget whose increase is more than forty mil- lions. The suggestion broached in Paris that France, Britain and Germany form a tripartite treaty for the limita- tion of the peace armament is likely to be viewed favorably by the taxpay- ers of the three countries, yet with re- luctance, if not suspicion, by the am- bitious and jealous powers. But the prodigious bounds made in the cost of naval construction must soon bring not only European nations, but also the United States, to realize that ere long the limit of endurance shall have been reached by the publie purse. One hopeful sign in our own coun- try is that the future evolution of the navy promises to be along lines that may make for economy. The strat- egists having doomed the light cruis- ers and dther auxiliary vessels, the navy promises to be confined to two classes, the battleships and the de- stroyers. Simplified batteries are promised for the dreadnaughts, and inasmuch as the naval battles'of the future are likely to be confined largely to long range fighting, it is probable that fewer warships will be needed and that no exhaustive addition to our present program need be made. As far as our country {8 concerned, it must maintain a pavy sufficient to operate if need be against any hostile power in either ocean, so that we have a direct interest in every proposal to fix a limit for European fleets. Another Bunco Game Exposed. The opinion recently given by the city attorney advising the city council that the initiativé and refereidum law is not In force in Omaha is entitled to some attention in passing because it exposes another bunco game which our friends, the democrats, tried to work with more or less success on victims who ought to have known better. It should be remembered that three years ago the democratic mayor and counci]l submitted to the voters a prop- osition for popular ratification which was suppesed to put into effect the in- itiative and referendum law, which by its terms waited for such acceptance. The democratic World-Herald pounded the tom-tom for the initiative and referendum to enlist votes for its edi- tor, who was then running for con- gress, knowing full well that the proposition was not in legal form and was vitally defective because of failure to comply with jurisdictional require- ments. In other words, the referendum was simply a burico game set up by the ocrats in eentrol of the city hall with full knowledge of its fraudulent character and designed to catch a few suckers who might not see through the sham. And now comes the same democratic city attorney, who was officlally charged with passing on the original ordinence, and in a written opinion de- clares that the action of the former democratic mayor and council is vold and of no effect and the vote taken troubles convineing skeptical New rkers of her abllity to raise the “iests of the departed, an inunocent raatula has instantaneously resur- reted the spirits of the dead letter office. The tarantella danced by the «lerks shows that to be a good judge of morfbund mail one does not have & be pecessarily a dead une purporting to endorse it was merely a straw ballot. If the city attorney had given this opinion at the time the fake ordinance was up the bunco game would have been balked, but holding his office as a democrat, he must ha thought party loyalty called on him to keep still. The cnly question is, how | many times the people will permit THE BEE: OMAHA, SA URDAY themselves to be fooled by the bunch of democratic bunco steerers? Gilder and Laffan, In leveling its shafts, death has in one day singled out two shining marks, men ‘of similar walks of life, in Rich- ard Watson Gilder and William M Laffan. Mr. Gilder was the chief genius of a family of geniuses, and came to be universally kpown as an editor and as a poet. His life and his letters dealt with great thoughts and lofty aims, and although he could in no sense be considered a popular poet, writing for the masses as did Longfellow, never- theless his name will live in song, sounding the clear, high notes. Not only was he a good editor and good poet; he was also a good citizen, and his works In the causes of benefaction and good government will live after him. * Mr. Laffan was best known as pub- lisher of the New York Sun, which he had for many years conducted as a fearless free lance in the cause of civ- flization. In addition he took impor- tant part In the directorate of Harper & Brothers, and he was an authority on fine arts, architecture and ceramics. Both Mr. Gilder and Mr. Laffan gave to literature lasting products from thelr pens, and neither was too busy enacting the part of the scholar to take & large personal share in the practical duties of citizenship making for a greater and a nobler country, Theirs it was to demonstrate that fine schol- larship did not need to stoop to con- quer in sharing with humbler human- ity the grind of the mills toward the general uplift. Railroad Bupervision, The spirit of hostility manifested be- tween state and interstats commis- sions gives proof to the public, if any proof were needed, of the justice of the president’s assertion that further railway regulating legislation is called for. ‘With legitimate state rights of any sort there should, of course, be no fed- eral interference, nor is there evident any intention on the part of Interstate commission or the president to ask for congressional action that shall restrict the powers of the state commissioners. It is manifestly unfair, however, for federal inspectors to be hampered in their work by the exercise of the pre- rogatives of state officia and con- gress will be expected to enact such legislation as shall free the interstate commission from such strife. It should always be remembered that state and nation are working to the same end, and they should un- doubtedly work in the utmost har- mony. State authority may be main- tained without interfering with the op- eration of the interstate board in any state for the good of the country at large, and the national board should be able so to adjust itself that it may ac- complish its purposes without denfial of any local privileges. It is a delicate problem, but it devolves upon congress ||{to make an early attempt to remove existing restrictions which are at the root of the present clash of state and interstate authority ‘What the ali-wise book says about returning good for evil is strikingly exemplified in the contempt case of Ig Dunn, in which William J. Connell has gone to the front to rescue the dis- barred attormey from his plight. For years Mr. Dunp has been most virulent and vicious in his fulmination against Nr. Connell, presumably because he ‘was once city attorney during the may- oralty, of Frank E. Moores, and since then has been the regularly retained attorney for The Bee. The personal affronts by Mr. Dunn, however, 4id not prevent him from seeking Mr. Con- nell’s assistance nor prevent Mr. Con- nell from responding to the appeal. It remains to be seen whether this gen- erosity will soften Ig's asperity and prevent him in the future from de- nouncing as a liar and a rogue every- one who happens to disagree with him. The observing layman may wonder if there is not some truth in the Bos- ton physician’s claim that the matter of operating for appendicitis is over- |done. Since the memorable case of | Blliott . Shepard, whose death first called public attention to this malady, there have been enough other distin- guished victims to make it a cause of remark. Recent in the list is Clyde Fiteh, and now another important New York publisher, William M. Laf- fan, has succumbed. The wonderful progress of surgery has not yet out- grown the stage of an occasional re- port, “Operation successful, but pa- tient dead.” The sale of the Gould interests in the Western Union are taken in some devete all their attention to the devel- opment of the Gould railroads in the middle west. Omaha is on both the Wabash and Missouri Pacific and therefore should share in the upbulld- ing of these lines, which are conceded to offer much room for improvement. A year ago Commissioner Bruning gave as his excuse for tying up with the democrats his personal differences with la County Commissioner M. J. Kennard. It Mr. Bruning ties up with the democrats again this year it will be because he prefers to work fn with democrats who did their best to defeat him rather than with repub- litans who elected him Omaha banks show substantial ins in the reports made in answer to the comptroller's call. if the banks are in stronger condition, so must also be the business institutions whose trapsactions they reflect quarters to mean that the Goulds will | In Other Lands The Impending Politioal Orisis in Great Britain, the Antagonized Bud. gt Taxation and Alternative Policy. A political erlsis of international Intercst is approaching in Great Britain. The de- termination of the House of Lords to re- Ject the budget as soon as the formalities of debate are gone through with is ind- cated by the motion of Lord Landsdowne, on which discussion begins next Monday. Lord Landsdowne is the recognized leader of the forces opposed to the program of the liberal ministry, not only the present revenue measure, but every distinctive | party measure passed by the | Commons since the ifberals came Inte power. His motion for rejection is pressed to a vote, will bring to its support an overwhelming majority of the peers and force an appeal to the country for which | the Tories have been striving for two years, There are 620 members in the Heuse of Lords. Four-fifths of them are Tories by Inheritance. The Lloyd-George budget drove into the ranks of the opposition sev- eral Ifberal peers, among them Lord Roses bery and Lord Iveagh, the former an ex- | tensive 1and owner and the latter & titled brewer, representing the two interests most seriously affected by the taxing features of the bill. There s left but a handtul of liberal peers, estimated at forty, to battle for the bill. Scarcely fifty of the | entire membership particlpate regularly in | leglslation, and only on occasions such as | the present when their income ana thelr | privileges are menaced do they concern themselves with legislative affairs. Under the leadership of Lord Landsdowne no dif~ tioulty will be experfenced in rallying the idie peers and overwhelming the fecble liberal minority. e The anticipated action of the lords in rejecting the budget overthrows a custom sanctioned by the usage of almost fifty years. Not since 1800 has the lords antagonized a finance bill sent up from the House of Commons. In that year, in order to gake good the loss of revenue due to the repeal of the paper duty, the com- mons sent to the lords two bills, gne in- creasing the property tax and another stamp duties. These were preliminary to the abolition of the paper duty, and the Whole scheme was expressed In thres separate bills. The lords cencurred in both Increases, and then rejected the bill abolishing the paper duty. Immediately there was a constitutional crisis. The commons contended that the lords had by violating the ‘“constitutional of more than two centuries,. encroached upon the commons' prerogative. The lords retorted that so far from killing & supply bill, they had rejected one which diminished the revenue ef the crown and pointed te two unchallenged instances of veteing ad- ministrative measures in which revenue raising was an incident, as their justifies- tion. They denied emphatically that they had Interfered with the budget. The com- mons, however, remained obdurate, and finally adopted, at the suggestion of Lerd Palmerston, a series of resolutions ths gist of which is that the paers are net to sit in revision of the financial calculations of the lower house made in carrying eut its eon- stitutional power of previding for the sup- port ef the government. For forty-nine years the ‘platform” ot the commons adopted In 1860 has been the unquestiened “last word” on the subject. o The increased taxes provided fer in the budget are designed to meet an anticipated deflcit roughly estimated at $30,000.000. The estimated expenditures ef the government for 1909-10 are placed at $820,760,000. The revenue on last vear's basis of taxatlon was calculated to reach only $741,950,000. A portlon of the deficlt is to be met by re- ducing the sums appropriated to the sink- ing fund by $15,000000, leaving only about $65,000.000 to be ralsed by taxation. The additional revenue is required for the old age penslons, $46,000,00, and for increased | raval outlay of from $15,000,000 to $30,000.000. Various increases’ In existing taxes and | duties are made, chiefly on lquor and | Mquor Ncenses, tobacco and inheritances. | Income taxes are increased from 2 to 29 |cents on each $5 and a super tax of 12 |cents on each $ on Incomes over $25,000 & year. These increases strike the well-to- |do in a tender spot, as the chancellor of | the exchequer planned that wealth should | contribute the bulk of the deflcit. The | greatest source of irritation to the lords | and landlords, however, is the tax on un- earned increment, amounting to 20 per cent of the increase in the value of land. To the land owners this taxing innovation is denounced as ‘“soclalistic’ and ‘“revolu- | tionary.” | “You will understand,” said George Paish | of the London Statist, In a recent lecture |at Columbia university, - “that the Incre- | ment auty of 20 per cent is & matter of the future only. Land is to be valued at the present time and the tax Is to be placed upon the future increment in the value, | dating from the time at which the valua- | tlon is made. How much this tax will vield in the future it is difficult to estimate. | But having regard to the enormons ad. | vance in the value of urban land in the {past and the probable further great in- | erease in the future, the tax should witt- | mately be a productive one. We have in | our country a population of only 45,000,000 | which is growing at the rate of about 1 | per cent per annum, or 450,00 a year. Our wealth is doubling about ¢ wealth, ‘that is to say, as'we grew richer we can afford to pay a higher price for | the land. Hitherto the unearned incremeny | from land has entirely escaped taxation. |.Not Infrequently it happens that the land {18 left at very low rentals for a period of |vears in expectation of a great Increase in |rental at a subsequent date and the in- come thus derived by its possessor cons NOVEMBER House of | ery thirty-three |the trial of a man it Is a dangerous busi- | Years and the value of land seems to rise |Ness for & mob, official or unofficial, to | Just about In proportion to the grewth of | |ror and disgust. 20, 1909. The healthful properties of Grapes are conveyed to food by BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Hence Finer, More Wholesome Food 80 heavily on British commerce. It is too early yet for clearness of statement re- garding the new policy. An authoritative definition must wait on this p - festo to the electors, should the issues now joined be submitted to @ vote of the people. The flerceness of the coming struggle betweon entrenched power and privilege and the masses may be inferred from Premier Asquith reply to Lord Roseberry, delivered In Birmingham several weeks ago. “Is this issue going to be raised?" referring to the threat of vetoing the budget. “If it is, it will carry with it consequences which he would be & bold man to forecast. That way revolution Hes, and If it going to be seriously threatened, Invelving, as I venture to predict it will, issues far wider and far deeper than the mere right of the House of Lords to meddle with finance, I say that the liberal party is not only ready but anxious to take up the challenge.” THEIR WAYS AND OURS. Judicial Practices Abroad and Th Like at Home, New York Sun. The disinterested condemnation directed from America against the processes and practises of the French ceurts must bring the flush of pride to every patriot cheek. The examination of the prisoner provided for in the Code Napoleon is properly de. nounced. The wrongs done to the cused are fittingly celebrated. The hideous possibilities concealed In these legal pro- visions for compeliing confession are ap- propriately set forth. There is no doubt that Judge Valles would mend his ways were It necessary for him to appeal to the electors of New York for retention in office. So frem the contemplation of this abom- inable spectacle of public Inquisition and the admirable anger it has produced among the foremest protectors of human rights we turn in relisf to the study ef our ewn gentle and wholly praiseworthy institutions. The highly ingenious misuse of the grand Jury's summens, which calls a suspect be- fore an assistant district attorney, pro- claims eour superiority to the despised French. The magniticent “third degree"” of eur police m s with its edifying trick of keeping prisoners without sleep for hours on end, its resort to mental If not physi- cal torture, its bland acceptance of “volun- tary” confession, all appeal Irresistibly to us, We know that they must be the finest flower of human civilization, else their | existence would not be tolerated for a moment In th's country. Were they even in the slightest degree questionable they could not survive for an instant in a com- munity in which the sufferings of a pris- oner In a forelgn land can siir to indignant expression so generous a sentiment of hor- Words Pointing One Way, San Francisco Chronicle. There are many ways of getting areund the shorter and ugller word in Parlia- ment, but Mr. Balfour made a short cut the other day when he described the statement of a Scotch member as “‘a frigid, caiculated lie.” Disraell was more cautious and never went further than to describe a man of questionable verity as ‘‘com- spicuously inexact.” The Balfour method came rather perilously near the edge and was a reminder of Horace Greeley's fa- mous remark that his opponent in debate “lied openly, knowingly and with naked intent to deceive—a grouping of words which did not leave much to the imagina- tion. Warning to Ofticials. Philadelphia Record. Sentences of sixty and ninety days on Sheriff Shipp and his associates for par- ticipation in the lynching of & negro to whom the supreme court had granted a supersedeas will not stop lynching, but| will make an impression upen the minds of sherifts and other persons in authority When the supreme court decides to review | break into a jail and assassinate him. Bucking the Black Olgar. | New York Tribune. | Some American cigar dealers object to | the government stamp on Philippine clgars certifying that they actually came from the Philippines and were manufactured of tobacco of the grade standard for the brand and under sanitary conditions as an | | are sadly over-worked. Especlally Is this | President Taft invited the | new addttion to the White House will come quently escapes the income tax, which s |UPGUe discrimination against the Cuban, | imposed only upon the Incomes actuaily | Porto Rican snd domestie product. Is) |received from year to year regardless of |that a confession that other clgars are | |the increment In the capital value. not up to the same’ standard in quality - and conditions of manufacture? | All parties concede the necessity of pro- N | |viding more revenue. Ola n.‘);. ostont] Sur REVRGMIrS . DRSNS |have come to stay. The naval program | Wall Street Journal | |of four dreadnoughts a year has been| Pesrt and swamp lands to be reclalmed |Increased to eight under the spur of Ger- |PY the government's project of irrigation, | man activity. Both policies call for money | 8¢cording to President Tatt, will ultmately land lots of it. How is it to be raised?|¥icld more than the lands now under tillage, |The liberal party policy as embodied in |While President Brown of the New York the budget is direct taxation of wealth, |Central claims the average product per | |The Tory alternative is Indirect taxation |acre of the natien's farms can be doubled i embodied in the Chamberlain plan of “tarif | Evidently the limitations of our produe- {reform.” Taritf reform in England differs | tive possibilities can only be measured by | radically from the common understand- | our supply of agricultural labor, ambition | lug of the term in theé United States. and intelligence. s reduction of duties on im- | Here it imp | ngland It means a tax on im- {ports. In ports now duty free. None of the leaders of the Tory policy has yet detalled what imports are to be taxed. Former Premier Balfour insists that tariff reform does not | mean an Incresse In the cost of the neces- caries. Lord Milner, champlons It on pro- tective ground, asserting that “the for- elgner wiil pay the tax.” In a vague way the Tories plan to devise customs duties which will protect the homemarket and not ralse the price of imports should | they come in. Carolyn Bellair, & seced- |ing liberal and advocate of tariff reform, |n.nm-n It as “a low tariff on foreign s, framed to the best of the govern- abdillt to @ecure reductions In f other countries which press ment's tariifs 1 | “Got There Just the Same.” { New York World. | Sheriff Shipp of Memphis sympathized | with (he mob that hanged his prisoner be- use he didn't want | to see the negro's| case delayed “four or five years' in fed- | eral courts. Those courts are not so slow after all. He got into Jall for contempt | In less time. | The Test of Greatness. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mr. Taft will prove himself a man of wonderful resourcefulness and versattlity if, after all he has said In the last few weeks, he can find anything now to Insert in bis message L0 congress POLITICAL DRIFT. Only sixteen days to congress. Cleveland paid Tom Johnson $6,000 a year for his troubles. Mayor Baehr will' get $10,000 and no trouble at all. A prohibition candidate for the legisla- ture in Maryland swears he spent 4 cents for campaign necessaries. The boodle equaled his run. Fountain L. Thompson, the newly ap- pointed United States senator for North Dakota, will hold office until the leglsla- ture assembles in 1911. He Is rated as a “progressive democrat One of the rural candidates for the as- sembly in New York reports his eampaign expenses at $6.80, and justifies the extrava- gance by saying, ““T don't see how I could have been beaten for less.” The experfence of being beaten in the race for the Massachusetts lleutenant gov- ernorship this year cost Eugene N. Foss, $41,757; the democratic state commlittee got $21,000 of it, and about $15,000 went for po- litical advertising in the newspapers. Gov- ernor Draper's re-election cost him $5 350. Democratic sentiment now veering to- ward Governer Harmon of Ohlo as an avaii- able man to head the presidential ticket in 1912, would, If it becomes a reality, make & unique centest. Two candidates frem Ohio would make the Buckeye state a Itvely battlefield and incidentally prove the un- surpassed reach of the Buckeyes for the ple and the counter. cond time in its history San a mayor elected on the unien laber ticket, but for the first time the chief executive of the city is a genuine leader of labor, a workingman who has risen by the force of his own ability from the ranks of the toilers. P. H. McCarthy, mayer- elect, is a carpenter, and for nearly thirty years he has been an active and aggressive leader of labo: INAPPROPRIATE SIMILES. Far-Fetched Political Spook Ma- terinlized. Boston Globe. Napoleon and Roosevelt, as subjects from which to point a moral or adorn a tale, true when brilllant pens write of Roose- velt's possible return from Elba—a political spook materialized for the pyrpose of frightening Mr. Taft. Mr. Roosevelt's retirement from the pres- fdency is so recent that it seems a pity some persons must be reminded that in the blography of that distinguished hunter of predatory things, both tame and wild, there is no such word as “‘Elba." In the career of the great Corsican. Klba followed a disastrous defeat. The restiess spirit, which Europe was hardly big enouga te contain, was cabined by his vanquishers on a small island in the Mediterransan. | Although surrounded by some of the in- gnia of state and permitted to have a little army, Napoleon's Elba kingdom was | in fact a prison cell. And as the cat came back so did he—to France, for & hundred s, Then another fsland Jall for him; this time St. Helena, which became at last his tomb, As for Theodore Roosevelt, he was not defeated. When he left the White House he left it freely. Had he desired to stay another four years the people would have assented. And, furthermore, they took as his successor the very man he asked them to take. Nor Is he In extle. Though his present address is somewhere in the tropics and in the same latitude as §t. Helena, he has not yet been banished from the affections of his countrymen. And when he returns to his native land it will not be for a| hundred days, we trust, but for many yei St. Louls Globe-Democrat. On his trip through the west and south people to pay him a reciprocal visit to Washington. The in handy this winter. { AR, my son, | Greater he | detend him, advised him to plead SMILING REMARKS. Friend—So your detective force is a fail- ure? Wwe can't find any ene whe Is willing to be & plain clothes wonian. —Puc The prisoner had no friends. His attorney, appointed by the court te ilt: uilty. looked at hia Te tryln' to avitate me to the pen- itentiary!" groaned the wretched viotim.— Chicago Tribune. The watch o judge yawned and “The forelgner we are entertaining thinks Lave queer ways of expressing our- “How is that?" “He heard several men discussing the transportation question the other day and he asked me how they could ever a {mproved waterways."~Baitimore ~Am: can. S0 you went into the country to get ‘atmosphere? How did you like It?” Disappointed. Couldn’t find a farmer who had a horse named Dobbin, heard one of them say ‘by heck delphia Record. “Senator,” d the interviewer, “it ix rumored that you intend to retire from politics.” “Well, well," replied the senator, “it's queer how rumors w.art. one grew out of the fac church with my wife I olic Standard and Time 1 lurpou this that ttended Sunday—Cath- “You needn’t think you young man,'’ sald the financlal and soclai magnate. I have an especlal aptitude for taking people’s measure.’ I suppose,” answered the young man he sought to snub, “that {s because your her began life as an itinerant Baltimors American. can deceive me, The Pessimist—We'll pay for all this fine weather later on. The Optimist—Well, cheer up! That's the e “ll'“ (Llme for paying for things, len‘t uck. 1 §ot Jhome yesterday I found wife had gone home to her mether. “You i, What did you do?" “Oh, I fust hurried over there and had a §ood meal, t0o."—Cleveland Leader. ou can't get something for nothing. Oh, I don't know," replied the boy pHow about the toothache?"—Detroit Fres ress. Her—Do vou believe that a word to the wise Is sufticlent? Him—Well, it depends on the word.—Chi- cago News, The saccharine magnate smiled as one in high good humor. “Just heard a funny thing,” he remarked to a visitor. “The Kovernment threatens to demand back the money we stol “That looks serious to ma." “Haw, haw. Can't you sce a joke? Why, we've spent the ‘money."—Philadeiphia Ledger. “IT IS DONE, MR. DUNN. A. L. Bixby in Lincoln Journal. It Is done, Mr. Dunn, and I speak net in un, When 1 say that it fits like a garment; | The decree of the court for a crime of that sort, Could be hardly less fierce than disbar- ment. "Twill be tough, sure enough, if the winte: is rough, And the poor will find little enjoyment, But I know If you go In to win you ean show Yourself strong in some other employ- ment, My bellef is your grief came from writing a brief, Which for' you was exceedingly eas 8y ; Not the same as its name might Ymmy, for the shame making the damthing too ou shall say, in no half- ted way, That you never will do it R gain, e or one, will pegr Duan, “we This too hasty rebuke from my pen, sir. |On my word I hi heard, though it ma | e absurd, That, among all the wise and the witty, on the whole, with himself In control Than the one who subdues a great city. Then, old man, If you can, here's the hint of a plan . That will make all your enemies dizs; you master yourself that {s better than " pelf— AndTight now is the time to get busy. - Boys and Small Men We have fifty suits, in sizes 32 to 35 chest, that we have left from last season, that we must sell. These suits come in plain blacks and blues and in faney mixtures, both single and double breasted 5.00 and $18.00, and for Saturday you can take your choice for— $6.50 These suits are on sale in our Young Men’s styles. They sold for $ Department, on 2d floor. See Douglas street case for display. Browning, King & Co ' B: K ¢ R. 8, WILCOA, Manager, CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS AND HAT! /' FIFTEENTH ano DOUGLAS 8TREETS, OMAHA, : (/ L} () ¢ i